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Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3

CHAPTER IV
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121; the sonnets on the months by Cene dalla Chitarra, _Poeti del Primo Secolo,_ vol.ii.pp.

196-207; the epithet "Molles Senae," given by Beccadelli; and the remarks of De Comines.
[160] I have not thought it necessary to distinguish between tempera and fresco.

In tempera painting the colours were mixed with egg, gum, and other vehicles dissolved in water, and laid upon a dry ground.

In fresco painting the colours, mixed only with water, were laid upon plaster while still damp.

The latter process replaced the former for wall-paintings in the fourteenth century..


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