[1859] In B. xxxiii. c. [39]. He alludes to cinnabaris, minium, rubrica, and sinopis.
[1860] Meaning “new painting,” probably. The reading, however, is doubtful.
[1861] “Splendor.” Supposed by Wornum to be equivalent to our word “tone,” applied to a coloured picture, which comprehends both the “tonos” and the “harmoge” of the Greeks. Smith’s Dict. Antiq. Art. Painting.
[1862] “Tone,” says Fuseli, (in the English acceptation of the word) “is the element of the ancient ‘harmoge,’ that imperceptible transition, which, without opacity, confusion, or hardness, united local colour, demitint, shade, and reflexes.”—Lect. I.
[1863] “Austeri aut floridi.”
[1864] Because of their comparatively great expense.
[1865] See B. xxxiii. cc. [30], [37]. Under this name are included Sulphuret of mercury, and Red oxide of lead.
[1866] See B. xxxiii. cc. [38], [39].
[1867] See B. xxxiii. c. [26]. “Indicum” and “purpurissum” will be described in the present Book.
[1868] Or “rubrica Sinopica;” “red earth of Sinope,” a brown red ochre, or red oxide of iron. Dioscorides identifies it with the Greek μιλτὸς, which indeed seems to have embraced the cinnabaris, minium, and rubricæ of the Romans.