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 373
and in still-life compositions modelling and shadingwere deemed essential. The human figure, the use of whichincreased greatly as the fifteenth century advanced, was givenits plastic roundness which it was assuming in the contempor-ary frescoes. Conventional leafage, etc., was no longer treatedfor… … TARSIA WORK 307 its sincerity as a mosaic of natural woods. In this work theutmost advantage is taken of the varieties shown by woods incolour and texture, without dependence on artificial colouringmatters, and those pictorial refinements over which Vasari singshis usual paean, but which really…
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