Here's some works in which the blue may be azurite or smalt rather than lazulite or has been mixed with other pigments to darken or lighten the color.
While Blue symbolizes Mary note how the use and placement also effects the composition overall?
I have selected works in 3 different styles and media that span the centuries.
Gerard David Annunciation
Flemish Gothic Oils
Fra Angelico
Italian Renaissance
Coronation of Virgin
Tempera
Finally moving back in time a 6th century Byzantine work !
