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smalt [smȯlt] (materials) A blue glass made by fusing silica and potash with cobalt oxides; used as a pigment for glass, ceramics, paints, and dyes. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Artists frequently used blue smalt as an alternative to the more exotic and expensive blue pigment lapis lazuli which was imported from the Middle East. Analyses of Tintoretto's Christ at the Sea of Galilee disclosed transparent green particles with a chemical composition very similar to that of blue smalt, a cobalt-containing glass material. |
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