A history of painting... / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn (1911)
Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928 · Boston : Dana Estes and Co. · leaf 138
hing lustre on the paint below, which waswrought with colours mixed with white of egg—what iscalled * tempera. Be that as it may, Antonello da Messina was the firstItalian painter of rank to employ oil glazes on panelspainted in tempera. That Vasaris tale of this artist 78 VIII ANTONELLO DA… … PAINTING worming the secret of oils out of Jan Van Eyck is WHEREIN mere gossip is clear from the fact that Van Eyck was A GENIUS dead three years before the Sicilian was born. It is COMES TO well to remember that Roger van der Wevden had VENICE been as far as Rome in 1450 ; and may have made the…
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