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The materials of the painter's craft in Europe and Egypt : from earliest times to the end of the XVIIth century, with some account of their preparation and use (1910)

Laurie, A. P. (Arthur Pillans), 1861-1949 · London ; Edinburgh : T.N. Foulis · leaf 93

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ardness and durability of the finished picturewould also be a gain. All these objects can be easilyaccomplished by mixing the balsam to be obtainedfrom the neighbouring pine-woods with the bees-wax, thus forming a medium more suited to northernclimates than the original beeswax of the Greeks. There… … PAINTING IN MELTED WAX By ADAM THOMSOXAccorditig to receipt in i^iiny. . ENCAUSTIC OR WAX PAINTING The following quotations from Pliny will serve tomake the descriptions given above of the method ofencaustic painting perfectly clear. I n the first place,in chapter xlix. of book xxi. he describes…

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