{"product_id":"genuine-lapis-lazuli","title":"Lapis Lazuli (Genuine)","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:underline\"\u003eArtist Notes\u003c\/span\u003e: One of the most famous blue stones in art, Lapis Lazuli has been famously used as an ornamental stone, for jewelry, personal adornment, and pigment for over 6000 years. Prohibitively expensive, coveted by royalty, and used in some of the most famous paintings on earth, Lapis Lazuli’s famous blue hue was finally made into the much more affordable Ultramarine Blue pigment so popular among artists today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:underline\"\u003ePaint Maker’s Notes\u003c\/span\u003e: Our Lapis Lazuli pigment is ethically sourced from Afghanistan and is a combination of fine and coarse lazurite particles (lazurite being the main component giving the stone its famous celestial blue colouring).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:underline\"\u003eTransparency\u003c\/span\u003e: Semi-Transparent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:underline\"\u003eStaining\u003c\/span\u003e: Semi-Staining\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:underline\"\u003eGranularity\u003c\/span\u003e: Granular\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:underline\"\u003ePigment Number\u003c\/span\u003e: PB 29\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:underline\"\u003ePigment Type\u003c\/span\u003e: Synthetic Inorganic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:underline\"\u003ePigment Composition\u003c\/span\u003e: Sodium sulfide aluminosilicate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:underline\"\u003eLightfastness\u003c\/span\u003e: I - Excellent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:underline\"\u003eToxicity\u003c\/span\u003e: Non toxic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:underline\"\u003eOf Further Note\u003c\/span\u003e:  Italian Renaissance painter Cennino Cennini wrote in \u003cem\u003eIl libro dell’arte\u003c\/em\u003e that it was ‘illustrious, beautiful and most perfect, beyond all other colours; one could not say anything about it, or do anything with it, that its quality would not surpass’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49991731052830,"sku":"SPCW3003","price":55.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0945\/7929\/4494\/files\/Lapis2.webp?v=1754516181","url":"https:\/\/www.stonegroundpaint.sbs\/products\/genuine-lapis-lazuli","provider":"Stoneground Paint Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}