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 335
ne would not give the black required. ^The Pax, Italian pace, was a little tablet of metal or some other materialused in. churches to transmit the kiss of peace from the priest to the people.Certain paxes once in the Baptistry of Florence have now found their waythrough the Uffizi to the Museum in… … SPECIMEN OF NIELLO WORKA Pax formerly in the Baptistry, and now in the National Museum, Florence ORIGIN OF ENGRAVING 275 throughout all Italy of both Italian and German origin.Just as impressions in clay were taken from silver plaquesbefore they were filled with niello, and casts pulled fromthese…
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