Vasari on technique; being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects (1907)
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574, Maclehose, Louisa S, Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 · London : J. M. Dent & co. · leaf 305
bstance was suitable. ^ A mordant as the word implies is some corrosive liquid, such as is usedby dyers to bite into the fabric and carry in with it the colouring matter. Theword is also employed, as in this passage, for a glutinous size used as groundfor gilding, such as the modern decorators… … ^■^^#91
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