Corner linguist. Idioms, phrases, and etymology of the stable

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Forgot tie blue color to the theme of the forum. And yet in the old days used to come, the customer to the artist, and the man: "Do you how many guilders blue krasochki put"? Blue pigment extracted from lapis lazuli (lapis lazuli, in Russia "stuffed cabbage") was the most expensive of all.

And here the problems begin investment in the arts. Here's what would we do if churchmen Van Eyku (founder of the technique of oil painting, by the way) on the azurite ordered to save.


Lapis (lapis lazuli stone) back in ancient times was considered the stone of sincerity pomyslovyu.

Blue

Symbols of the blue comes from the obvious physical fact - a cloudless blue sky. In the mythological consciousness of the sky has always been the abode of the gods, ancestral spirits, angels, hence the principal symbol of the blue - divinity. Paired with the values - of mystery, mysticism, sacredness, nobility and purity (spirituality), consistency (in the faith, loyalty, love), perfection, high background (blue blood), justice (God's work).

Here is good on the symbolism of flowers and blue, in particular:
http://www.mironovacolor.org/theory/...r/symbolism/#4