The Art of Fresco Painting: As Practised by the Old Italian and Spanish Masters, with a Preliminary Inquiry Into the Nature of the Colours Used in Fresco Painting, with Observation and Notes |
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afterwards Agricola Albin Almagre Amatito ancients appear Armenino arricciato artificial artist beautiful blue pigments Borghini brush burnish called carbonate of copper cartoon Cennino Cennino Cennini chap charcoal Cinnabar coat damp dark distemper distemper painting draperies durable Esmalte figures finished flesh colour fresco painting gesso green ground Guercino imitate intonachi intonaco iron Italian Italy kind of painting laid lake Lapis Lapis Lazuli light lime Lomazzo Luca Giordano Luis de Vargas manner marble Matita mentioned Michael Angelo mineral mixed mixture mortar nail native natural necessary ochre Pabonazo Pacheco painters painting in fresco painting on walls Palomino Perino del Vaga pigment Pisa plaster Pliny powder practice prepared preserved proper Raffaello Red Hæmatite retouching Rome roof sand says secco shades shew Sinopia sketch Smaltino soft Spain Spanish stone stucco Terra Tierra Verde tints Treatise ultramarine Vasari Verde vermilion Vitruvius writers yellow