 This is an awful thing to say to oil painters ; they may call it madness, but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil.  The Family Library (Harper). - Síða 1421846Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | 1851 - 782 síður
...show itself by the side of an earlier composition. This is an awful thing to say to oil painters ; but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures are in fresco, and not in oil?" Those who think strongly on a given subject, uniformly think too strongly — and seem utterly forgetful... | |
 | 1857 - 626 síður
...would show itself by the side of an earlier composition. This is an awful thing to say to oil painters; but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures are in fresco, and not in oil?" Those who think strongly on a given subject, uniformly think too strongly — and seem utterly forgetful... | |
 | Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 síður
...destroyer of colour, white-lead, which, when its protecting oil is evaporated, will become lead again. This is an awful thing to say to Oil Painters ; they...but it is true. All the genuine old little Pictures, called Cabinet Pictures, are in fresco and not in oil. Oil was not used, except by blundering ignorance,... | |
 | William Blake - 1885 - 330 síður
...destroyer of colour, white lead, which, when its protecting oil is evaporated, will become lead again. This is an awful thing to say to oil painters ; they...but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil. Oil was not used except by blundering ignorance... | |
 | 1888 - 742 síður
...and at length brown, destroys every colour it is mixed with, especially every delicate colour . . . This is an awful thing to say to Oil Painters ; they may call it madness, but it is true, . . . One convincing proof among many others that these assertions are true is, that real gold and... | |
 | 1905 - 568 síður
...first mixture, and in a very little time becomes a yellow mask over all that it touches." And again : " All the genuine old little pictures . . . are in fresco and not in oil " ; and : " The art of fresco painting being lost, oil became a fetter to genius and a dungeon to the... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1907 - 464 síður
...show itself by the side of an earlier composition. This is an awful thing to say to oil-painters ; they may call it madness, but it is true. All the...genuine old little pictures are in fresco and not in oiLM Having settled the true princ1ples and proper materials of colour, he proceeds to open up the... | |
 | Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 500 síður
...destroyer of colour, white lead, which, when its protecting oil is evaporated, will become lead again. This is an awful thing to say to oil painters : they may call it madness, but it is true. All genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil. Oil was not used,... | |
 | Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 542 síður
...destroyer of colour, white lead, which, when its protecting oil is evaporated, will become lead again. This is an awful thing to say to oil painters : they may call it madness, but it is true. All genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil. Oil was not used,... | |
 | Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 500 síður
...destroyer of colour, white lead, which, when its protecting oil is evaporated, will become lead again. This is an awful thing to say to oil painters : they may call it madness, but it if true. All genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil. Oil... | |
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