William Morris to Whistler; papers and addresses on art and craft and the commonweal (1911)
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell & Sons ltd. · leaf 190
sthe majority seem to have been worked directlywith a free hand. There is a fine example of how Cennino describes a method of cutting stamps in stone(Chapter 170) to be used as moulds for figures to be appliedto the decoration of chests or coffers, but he speaks of beatingtin into these moulds and… … NOTES ON EARLY ITALIAN GESSO WORKgesso lends itself to a bold heraldic treatment in theMuseum collection (No. 3—1865), a tournamentshield on which a griffin, sable, is emblazoned ona field, or. The sable griffin in bold relief is not onlya fine heraldic beast, but is decoratively spacedand relieved…
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