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Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are?Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's …
Medieval painters built up a tremendous range of technical resources for obtaining brilliance and permanence. In this volume, an internationally …
Medieval painters built up a tremendous range of technical resources for obtaining brilliance and permanence. …
There was a time, and not so long ago, when men spoke not of the Middles Ages but of the Dark Ages. We have learned that their apparent darkness is the darkness of our own understanding. When we contemplate the history of medieval art, and summon up remembrance of what its works were in their day, and see the part played in them by metal gold, we may well wonder whether we should not do wisely to call them not the Middles Ages but the Golden Age.
— The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting by Daniel V. Thompson (Page 229)
@nasamuffin I enjoyed it! She's such a consistent writer, I always know I'm getting a solidly told story. There is less pining than the Paladin books but not none
Healer Anja regularly drinks poison.
Not to die, but to save—seeking cures for those everyone else has given up on. …
Healer Anja regularly drinks poison.
Not to die, but to save—seeking cures for those everyone else has given up on. …
Medieval painters built up a tremendous range of technical resources for obtaining brilliance and permanence. …
Cornelius Jansen, in the seventeenth century, summed up the character of orpiment bluntly: "Orpiment will ly faire on any culler, except verdigres, but no culler will ly faire on him, he kills them all."
— The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting by Daniel V. Thompson (Page 178)
I for one am glad we decided to invent spelling
Medieval painters built up a tremendous range of technical resources for obtaining brilliance and permanence. …
One of the most important services required of [yellow pigments] was to imitate the appearance of gold. Another of their chief functions was to modify the qualities of greens and, to a less extend, of reds. Of all their uses, perhaps the least important was to represent yellow things.
— The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting by Daniel V. Thompson (Page 174)
Medieval painters built up a tremendous range of technical resources for obtaining brilliance and permanence. …
... "the dragon wraps his tail around the legs of the elephant, and the elephant lets himself sink upon the dragon, and the blood of the dragon turns the ground red; and all the ground that the blood touches becomes cinnabar, and Avicenna calls this dragonsblood." I am sometimes not at all sure that we do not pay too dearly for our scientific knowledge.
— The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting by Daniel V. Thompson (Page 125)
The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages …
The cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to the aging ruler of a crumbling estate situated …
Karys Eska is a deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with Sabaster, a terrifying eldritch entity—three-faced, hundred-winged, unforgiving—who has granted …
Karys Eska is a deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with Sabaster, a terrifying eldritch entity—three-faced, hundred-winged, unforgiving—who has granted …
@tilde@infosec.town @tripofmice@friend.camp Worth noting that this book was written in the early 1950s
Medieval painters built up a tremendous range of technical resources for obtaining brilliance and permanence. …
...it is perhaps worth while to noite that miniare meant to work with minium (this is, either orange lead or red sulphide of mercury), and that a person who worked with minium was called a miniator, and the things that he was to miniate were called miniatura. So miniatrues were originally the paragraph signs and versals and capitals and headings, and so on, which were to be put in red in manuscripts. The men who put these in sometimes did illustrative and decorative drawings and paintings besides, and these came to be called miniatures too. And, finally, because they were only incidental, and therefore usually rather small, the word miniature came to mean "diminutive."
— The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting by Daniel V. Thompson (Page 102)
You bet I'm going to be effusing about this little fact to anyone who will listen at work tomorrow
