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A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge (1598)

Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538-1600, Haydock, Richard · Printed at Oxford : By Ioseph Barnes for R.H. · leaf 260

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word all mixt colours, differing each from other,procureearneftdefire,variety,and PhantaHicalneffe. And thefc arc the qualities of colours,in the difpofition whereof we mult be careful, that wee make no diforder orconfufion in the eie of the beholder .But concerning the manner of… … He Athenians were wont when any misfortune be-fell them,to attire themfelues in Blacke: the Romanesalfoexpreiled their forrow and griefe,with the likegarments,as we read oiCraffus^ who vpon the deathofa fifh, which he tooke delight in, ware a mourningweede. Whence (as Cicero writeth in an Epiftle…

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