 ... to singe the wood by the fire ; while others used oil of sulphur and a solution of corrosive sublimate and arsenic. St. Audemar (No. 165) mentions that saffron was used to stain box-wood yellow ; but he does not say to what use the wood was put when...  Intarsia Had Marquetry - Page 17by Frederick Hamilton Jackson - 1903 - 152 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Philadelphia Merrifield - 1849 - 646 pages
...he does not say to what use the wood was put when stained. The subjects most proper for Tarsia work are perspective representations of buildings full...and relief are given by means of lights and shades. Vasari speaks rather slightingly of this art, and says that it was practised 1 See pages 187, 188.... | |
 | Original treatises - 1849 - 642 pages
...he does not say to what use the wood was put when stained. The subjects most proper for Tarsia work are perspective representations of buildings full...and relief are given by means of lights and shades. Vasari speaks rather slightingly of this art, and says that it was practised chiefly by those persons... | |
 | Mary Philadelphia Merrifield - 1849 - 644 pages
...he does not say to what use the wood was put when stained. The subjects most proper for Tarsia work are perspective representations of buildings full...and relief are given by means of lights and shades. Vasari speaks rather slightingly of this art, and says that it was practised chiefly by those persons... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1854 - 516 pages
...white wood, similarly to the mode adopted for poker-pictures. The subjects most proper for tarsia-work are perspective representations of buildings, full...and relief are given by means of lights and shades : it was frequently employed in decorating the choirs of churches, as well as the backs of the seats... | |
 | South Kensington Museum - 1874 - 722 pages
...wood was put when (lained. " The fubjefts moft proper for tarfia work are perfpeftive reprefentations of buildings full of windows and angular lines, to...force and relief are given by means of lights and fbades. Vafari fpeaks rather flightingly of this art, and fays that it was praftifed chiefly by thofe... | |
 | 1876 - 306 pages
...intarsiatura " ; and is, in fact, a kind of mosaic in woods. The subjects most proper for tarsia work are perspective representations of buildings full...and relief are given by means of lights and shades. Very fine examples may be seen in the interior fittings of the sacristies and choirs of many Italian... | |
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