With canvas and paint set before me,
I would choose Giotto blue for this sky
that is a cathedral dome above me.
Spare no expense for the ultramarine pigment
for this Earthly chapel that surrounds me.

natural ultramarine pigment
Image: detail from Giotto’s painted interior of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ)
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