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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)

Note 2037 — BOOK XXXV. AN ACCOUNT OF PAINTINGS AND COLOURS.

John Bostock translation

Sir Joshua Reynolds discovers in the account here given “an artist-like description of the effect of glazing, or scumbling, such as was practised by Titian and the rest of the Venetian painters.”—Notes to Du Fresnoy.

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