{"id":4405,"date":"2019-01-07T18:02:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T18:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icom-milano-2016.icom.cust.oxymium.net\/excursion-day\/journee-dexcursion\/a-kind-of-blue-in-milano-history-of-the-most-perfect-colour\/"},"modified":"2019-01-07T18:35:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T18:35:48","slug":"a-kind-of-blue-in-milano-history-of-the-most-perfect-colour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icom-milano-2016.mini.icom.museum\/fr\/excursion-day\/journee-dexcursion\/a-kind-of-blue-in-milano-history-of-the-most-perfect-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"A kind of blue in Milano: history of the most perfect colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"RTE_CONTENT\"> <!--TYPO3SEARCH_begin--> \t<!--  CONTENT ELEMENT, uid:17384\/textpic [begin] --> \t\t<\/p>\n<div id=\"c17384\"> \t\t<!--  Image block: [begin] --> \t\t\t<\/p>\n<div> \t\t<!--  Text: [begin] --> \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Can Milan, in all its greyness, hide blue? <\/p>\n<p>Our expert will take you to visit Millan following the trail of colour: Blue. <\/p>\n<p>With its spiritual meaning that recalls the immensity of the sky and the sea, it had a great influence in the history of art, even in a city well known for being grey. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll find blue in paintings, where it indicates wealth, since it was too difficult to obtain from lapis lazuli. <\/p>\n<p>See its effect in the cloaks of the Virgin Mary in the Museum Poldi Pezzoli and discover the expert use of lapis lazuli for decoration in the magnificent cabinet here guarded. <\/p>\n<p>Blue has been used in glass for centuries, and the Duomo, Milan\u2019s Cathedral, would not be the same without its stained glass windows. <\/p>\n<p>Blue is an essential architectural element of light in Gothic Cathedrals: light is a God\u2019s attribute, paradise and the sky had to be brought inside the church walls and inside the Duomo you can understand why. <\/p>\n<p>Finish your day with a visit to Dan Flavin\u2019s installations, contemporary blue of complex spirituality that turns the Red Church blue, ideal spot to enjoy the light of the last part of the day. <\/p>\n<p>17:00 \u00a0&#8211; 19:30 (2,5 hours) <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icom-milano-2016.mini.icom.museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2019\/01\/RTEmagicC_esc_-_Blu.JPG.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/><i>Blu &#8211; vetrate del Duomo @Elesta Travel 2015<\/i><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<!--  Text: [end] --> \t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t<!--  Image block: [end] --> \t\t\t   \t<!--  \t\tBEGIN: Content of extension \"hpo_relatedlink\", plugin \"tx_hporelatedlink_pi1\"  \t--> \t<\/p>\n<div> \t\t \t<\/div>\n<p> \t \t<!-- END: Content of extension \"hpo_relatedlink\", plugin \"tx_hporelatedlink_pi1\" -->  \t<\/div>\n<p> \t<!--  CONTENT ELEMENT, uid:17384\/textpic [end] --> \t\t<!--TYPO3SEARCH_end--> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Milan, in all its greyness, hide blue? Our expert will take you to visit Millan following the trail of colour: Blue. With its spiritual meaning that recalls the immensity of the sky and the sea, it had a great influence in the history of art, even in a city well known for being grey. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":481,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icom-milano-2016.mini.icom.museum\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icom-milano-2016.mini.icom.museum\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icom-milano-2016.mini.icom.museum\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icom-milano-2016.mini.icom.museum\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icom-milano-2016.mini.icom.museum\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icom-milano-2016.mini.icom.museum\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12552,"href":"https:\/\/icom-milano-2016.mini.icom.museum\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4405\/revisions\/12552"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icom-milano-2016.mini.icom.museum\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icom-milano-2016.mini.icom.museum\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icom-milano-2016.mini.icom.museum\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}