Handbook of the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: As Applied to the Decoration of Furniture, Arms, Jewels, &c. &c

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Стр. 76 - Pinaigrier and many others distinguished themselves in this style of painting, and produced works of great correctness of drawing and remarkable execution. But the era of glass painting was at an end. From the moment that it was attempted to transform an art of purely monumental decoration into an art of expression, its intention was perverted, and this led of necessity to its ruin.
Стр. xxviii - em, With joynts so close as not to be perceiv'd ; Yet are they both each other's counterpart. (Her part had Juan inscrib'd, and his had Zayda. You know those names were theirs) : and, in the midst, A heart divided in two halves was plac'd.
Стр. 335 - When I had often knowingly looked at it, being more and more troubled about it, I obtained some phials shining with clear glass, which I anointed with the fatness of gum with a paint-brush. Having done this, I began to lay leaf-gold upon them, and when they were dry I engraved birds and men and lions upon them, as I thought proper. Having done this, I placed over them glass made thin with fire by skilful blowing. After they had felt the heat thoroughly, the thinned glass adhered properly to the phials....
Стр. 60 - Byzantine artists the motives could only belong to the original inventor. In its more extended signification the term comprehends invention generally, as distinguished from execution. Another very different and less general sense in which this expression is also used, must not be confounded with the foregoing ; thus a motive is sometimes understood in the sense of a suggestion. It is said, for example, that Poussin found the motives of his landscape compositions at Tivoli. In this case we have a...
Стр. 66 - Sic prata verms floribua renident. which must not be confounded with painted glass. To obtain the latter the artist makes use of a plate of translucid glass, either colourless or already tinted in the mass, and gives the design and colouring with verifiable...
Стр. 67 - These colours, true enamels, are the product of metallic oxides, which give the colouration, combined with vitreous compounds known by the name of fluxes. These fluxes serve as vehicles for the colours, and it is through their medium, assisted by the action of strong heat, that the colouring matters are fixed upon the plate of glass and incorporated with it.
Стр. 226 - Renaiuance, — a book which, on account of the value of its information and the beauty of its illustrations, should accompany every visitor to the interesting Exhibition at South Kensington. At p. 226, we are told a nef is " the piece of plate in which the nobility of those days displayed the greatest luxury.
Стр. 307 - On se servait, pour préparer le motif de la » composition, d'un plat d'étain sur la surface duquel » on collait, à l'aide de térébenthine de Venise, le lit » de feuilles à nervures apparentes, de galets de rivière,
Стр. 106 - ... is filled; taking away the wax, to which it had adhered, place this piece upon a thin iron, which may have a short handle, and cover it with another iron, which is hollow like a cup, and let it be perforated finely all over, so that the holes may be inside flat and wide, and outside finer and rough, in order to stop the cinders, if by chance they should fall upon it.
Стр. 113 - The large plates are studded with precious stones, the front one being surmounted with a cross ; the smaller ones, placed alternately with these, are ornamented with enamels representing Solomon, David. Hezekiah and Isaiah, and Christ seated between two flaming seraphim.

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