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Title
Amethyst Blue
Artist
Sharon Mau
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Macro
Description
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are - Anaïs Nin
The amethyst is extravagance in violet. For many thousands of years, the most striking representative of the quartz family has been a jewel coveted by princes both ecclesiastical and secular. Moses described it as a symbol of the Spirit of God in the official robes of the High Priest of the Jews, and the Russian Empress Catherine the Great sent thousands of miners into the Urals to look for it.
Amethyst is also esteemed as a stone of friendship. And since it is thought to put the wearer in a chaste frame of mind and symbolise trust and piety, the amethyst came to occupy a very prominent position in the ornaments of the Catholic clergy over the centuries. It was the stone of bishops and cardinals; we find it in prelates' crosses and in the so-called Papal Ring (Italian, 15th century) in the Jewellery Museum in Pforzheim. In Tibet there were amethyst rosaries, for there the gemstone was dedicated to Buddha and was said to promote clarity of mind.
Amethyst Blue Jewel Tones
Single Exposure Macro Photography
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
1/400 sec f/2.8
iso 200
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
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March 14th, 2017
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