Talk:Ultramarine
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This history is embarrassingly Eurocentric. Synthetic Ultramarine was invented as a faience in Egypt in 4,000 BC. At least mention should be made of this, as well as the synthetic ultramarine known in China. 14.139.173.163 (talk) 09:13, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
Applications
Ultramarine was a popular color used in postage stamps at one time. Not sure how to work that into the article. W. B. Wilson (talk) 05:25, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
Bacchus and Ariadne
I cannot stress enough that using an image that completely misrepresents the subject of the article (in this case the colour ultramarine) is worse than using no image at all.
There was a Sesame Street song, when my kids were little, that went "One of these things just doesn't belong here. One of these things is not the same!" Of the four images in the gallery, three represented the colour ultramarine correctly, and the fourth was glaringly different. The reason was either that the colour reproduction was poor, or the colour wasn't actually ultramarine at all. If a written source says that it is ultramarine then it up to the creator of the gallery to make sure that the colour reproduction doesn't misrepresent the subject of the article. The thing that was going to tellyou that it was horribly wrong was your own observation. I cannot stress enough that editors need to look critically at every image that they choose to illustrate their subject. Amandajm (talk) 06:11, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
