Lapis and Gold: How the Gilded Page Was Made

The workshop and the laboratory: grinding lapis into ultramarine, boiling Tyrian purple, laying and burnishing gold leaf, ruling the vellum — plus the conservators and imaging scientists (the MINIARE project) reading what time left behind.

Playlist by @illuminated_art

14 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Why Tyrian Purple Dye Is So Expensive | So Expensive | Insider Business — Business Insider
2. Making Manuscripts — Getty Museum
3. Making A Medieval Book - Complete Process From Start to Finish - 60 hours in 24 minutes — Four Keys Book Arts
4. How The World's Most Expensive Color Is Made — Business Insider
5. The Rarest Pigment in the World | Colour the Spectrum of Science | BBC Earth Science — BBC Earth Science
6. Turning Rocks into Lapis Lazuli (Ultramarine) — Amateur Chemistry
7. The Structure of a Medieval Manuscript — Getty Museum
8. Fra Angelico blue pigment extraction — Master Pigments
9. How To Make Illuminated Manuscripts Using Traditional Techniques | History In The Making — Discovery UK
10. The Making Of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - Dr Sally Dormer — Gresham College
11. I Tried Making the World's Rarest Blue Paint From Rocks — JakeDontDraw
12. 15th century white vine illumination: painting, applying gold leaf and burnishing — Calligraphy by Moya
13. The Alchemy of Color and Chemical Change in Medieval Manuscripts — Getty Museum
14. Secret histories of illuminated manuscripts: the MINIARE project — Cambridge University