Maya Blue: Its Presence in Cuban Colonial Wall Paintings

Tagle, Alberto A.; Paschinger, H.; Richard, Helmut; Infante, Guillermo Cabrera

doi:10.2307/1506168

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“…Maya Blue was initially developed in Yucatan, central Mexico, and Guatemala probably around the 6th century AD . The preparation technique of Maya Blue was further continued during the 16th and 17th centuries in Spain, perhaps profiting from this pioneer technology from America, which was later on applied during the 19th century into colonial times of Cuba, giving rise to pigments, called in this case as Havana Blue …”

Section: Hybrid Materials: When Serendipity Becomes Know‐howmentioning

confidence: 99%

History of Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Materials: Prehistory, Art, Science, and Advanced Applications

Faustini

Nicole

Ruiz‐Hitzky

et al. 2018

Adv Funct Materials

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The rise of organic-inorganic hybrid materials in both academia and industry results from a convergence of diverse expertise and communities and is driven by the curiosity of open-minded scientists. In this review article, a historical perception on the evolution of hybrid material science is described. The major periods associated with the genesis of hybrid materials are discussed: prebiotic hybrid chemistry, hybrid materials made through know-how, the rise of silicates and silicon chemistry, modern hybrids: a mushrooming multidisciplinary field of research, and current applications of hybrid materials fully integrated in the society. Finally, the review presents an outlook that summarizes some future prospects related to hybrid materials.

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Section: Hybrid Materials: When Serendipity Becomes Know‐howmentioning

confidence: 99%

History of Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Materials: Prehistory, Art, Science, and Advanced Applications

Faustini

Nicole

Ruiz‐Hitzky

et al. 2018

Adv Funct Materials

302

228

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“…Maya blue is a pigment found in different representative sites of the cultures that inhabited Mesoamerica (Gettens 1955; Reyes‐Valerio 1993), from Mexico to Guatemala, and even in colonial sites of the Caribbean region, such as Cuba (Tagle et al . 1990). It was first described by Merwin (1931), who found the remains of a Maya wall in the Temple of the Warriors at Chichen‐Itzá and assumed it was an inorganic compound due to its high resistance to acids.…”

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Crystal–chemical and diffraction analyses of Maya blue suggesting a different provenance of the palygorskite found in Aztec pigments*

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Maya blue is a pigment found in different archaeological sites of different cultures from Mesoamerica, and also in colonial buildings in Mexico and Cuba. The pigment is made from a thermally treated mixture of indigo and palygorskite. Pigment samples from Aztec and non‐Aztec archaeological sites as well as reference Yucatecan palygorskites were studied in this paper to assess their differences. The characterization of the samples was carried out by a combination of a crystal–chemical‐point analyses using electron microscopy to obtain the structural formulae of the palygorskite crystals, and studied using high‐resolution X‐ray diffraction. The data show evidence that the palygorskite used by non‐Aztec cultures, such as the Maya, is compatible with palygorskite from known sources in the Yucatan Peninsula, while the palygorskite used by the Aztec culture is different in its structure and has an origin that is still unknown.

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“…3 Later-on, its use was pursued in Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries and until the 19th century in Cuba under the Havana blue name. 4,5 It is now known that the Maya blue pigment is actually an ancient nanostructured material formed by assembling indigo, a natural dye, with palygorskite, a microbrous clay mineral. [6][7][8] Due to its exceptional stability, Maya blue was rst considered to be an entirely inorganic pigment, 3 but it was soon recognized that it is actually an organic-inorganic nanohybrid material, in which the organic dye molecules are encapsulated within the structural nano sized tunnels of palygorskite.…”

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