The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages (1880)
Sandhurst, Phillip T · N.Y., Worthington · leaf 44
ely along, till now in Cimabue it meets the approaching dawn ofintellectual life and freedom. Italian art existed in small beginnings, in the gorgeous but quaintly formal orfantastic devices of illuminated missals, and in the stiff spasmodic efforts of here andthere an artist spirit such as the old… … r~ CIMABUE. 23 in fresco, preceded painting on canvas. Colours were mixed with water or with size,egg, or fig-juice—the latter practices termed tempera (in English in distemper) beforeoil was used to mix colours. But painters did not confine themselves then to paintingwith pencil or brush, else…
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