Sanalitro presents its latest creation, a ring with the shank in white agate, flat cabochon in Lapis Lazuli, 18k yellow gold and diamonds. Like all our jewels it has been designed and hand-crafted in its Workshop in Milan.
About Lapis Lazuli
Lapis Lazuli, a powerful stone for stimulating your intuition and thirst for knowledge. The name lapis lazuli is mélange of languages. From the Latin, lapis means stone. From the Arabic, azul means blue. The beautiful blues in paintings from the Renaissance are thanks to the blue of lapis lazuli, the opaque blue gem material that was the secret ingredient in ultramarine, the valuable pigment that all the old masters used to capture the rich blues of the sea and sky and the robes of the Virgin Mary.
Lapis lazuli is a dark blue microcrystalline rock composed primarily of the mineral lazurite. It often sparkles with golden pyrite inclusions, like stars twinkling against the blue firmament.
Connoisseurship of Lapis Lazuli was already ancient in the Renaissance. Lapis Lazuli was among the treasures of Mesopotamia, Byzantium, Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome. Lapis Lazuli was also thought to be strong medicine. The Romans believed it to be a powerful aphrodisiac. In the Middle Ages, it was thought to keep the limbs healthy and free the soul from error, envy and fear.
Lapis lazuli is still mined at the deposits of the ancient world in Afghanistan. Today lapis lazuli is also mined in Chile. Small quantities are also produced in Siberia, in Colorado in the United States, and in Myanmar.
