Набор Cross "Classic Century Translucent Blue Lacquer": шариковая ручка и ручка-роллер, цвет - синий

Upon the Pala dБЂ™Oro, the richly metalled altar screen in Saint MarkБЂ™s, panels of translucent blue enamel were set within golden borders. It was heavenБЂ™s colour. Blue is the colour of calm and serenity, adopted in the most serene city. In the paintings of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the most favoured colour was a deep blue. There was the violet blue of the sky, and the greenish blue of the soft distance. The colours of salmon, magenta, orange and white are reflected upon the blue and green waters. The sails of the fishing boats, upon the lagoon through the centuries, were orange or crimson. There is also green, so much wished for in a city of stone. Bellini luxuriated in deep green. The Venetian builders loved green marble. It was an intimation of the natural world, so that we can speak of forests of marble springing up in the city. It was a reminder of the sap and the leaf, of the miracle of rebirth. Ruskin noted that one of the favourite chords of Venetian colour БЂњwas the sweet and solemn harmony of purple with various greens.БЂ«There is the pink of dawn, too, and the pink of evening ...»