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Welcome to the Lapis-Lazuli Mineral Gallery If you have more items you would like listed on this page please use the link below. ---

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Lapis lazuli is characteristically recognized by its blue color. It often sparkles with golden pyrite inclusions. The beautiful blues in paintings from the Renaissance can be attributed to the blue of lapis lazuli, the blue rock loved by the ancient civilizations. Ground lapis was the secret of the blue in ultramarine, the pigment which painters used to paint the sea and the sky until the nineteenth century. Lapis Lazuli has been highly valued for many thousands of years. Lapis lazuli today is still a very popular lapidary material. It is made into a variety of hand-crafted objects such as carvings, spheres, beads, cabochons and other jewelry items.

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