among the Ancients, 589 



fortis is employed to clean the frefque paintings.* 

 PlinjA feme where fays that glue diffblved in 

 vinegar is not again foluble in water if left to 

 d,ry,' but I have loft my reference to the paiTage. 



What the encauflic painting of the ancients was, 

 has been much litigated. The Count de Caylus 

 however, fcems in part to have fucceeded in 

 explaining the paffages relating to it, by adopt- 

 ing the moft obvious meaning o^ them ; and 

 the paintings executed by himfelf,-}- Bachelier, 

 Muntz, Zombo, &c. are no mean proofs that he 

 was right in his conjedlures. 



The chief obfervations relating to encauftic 

 painting in the works of the ancients, are the 

 following from Vitruvius and Pliny. 



yf/ Jiqids Jubtilior fuerit^ et voluerit expolitionem 

 miniaceam Juum colorem retinere, cum paries expolitur 

 et aridus fuerity tunc ceram punuam igni UquefaSlam 

 paulo oko temperatam Jeta inducat. Deinde pofiea 



* WInckleman, torn. II. 



t Count Caylus exhibited a head of Minerva, painted 

 in conformity to his theory of the encauftic painting, at the 

 Louvre in 1754. Bachelier, who v^rote De I'Hiftoire et, 

 du Secret de la Peinture en Cire, had executed a painting 

 in wax in 1749. See on the fubjeft of Encauftic painting 

 Memoires de 1 'Academic des Infcriptions. XXIII. 328. 

 XXV. 173, 187, 225. The Papers of the Abbe Mazeas, 

 and of Dr. Parfoijs, in the Phil. Tranf. XLIX. 652, 655. 

 and LI. 40 and 53. Muntz's Treatife on Encauftic Paint- 

 ing, and his Encauftic Eloge of Couot Caylus in Mem. de 

 1 'Acad, des Infcrip. XXXIV. 



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