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 72
e in their minds the action of fire on cakes andsimilar comestibles that darken when baked, and an Italian artist would think tooof the action of fire on clay, che viene rossa quando ella e cotta as he saysin chapter xxv of the Introduction to Painting. See Frontispiece, where Ai,compared with A,… … PORTRAIT IN PORPHYRY OF COS I MO PATER PATRIAEBY FRANCESCO DEL TADDA SERPENTINE 35 § 3. 0/ Serpentine. After porphyry we come to serpentine,^^ which is agreen stone, rather dark, with httle crosses long andyellowish all through its texture. The artificers busythemselves with making columns and…
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