On Erxaufic Painting* 2$ 



o moifture, do over the painting, after it has been polifhed, 

 with the white of an egg: this procefs will render it as 

 durable as the bcft oil painting. 



Wl . On the Antiquity and Advantages of Encaujlic Painting, 

 with ait Examination of the Procefs employed in that Art by 

 the Ancients, From a Treatife entitled Antichita, Vantaggi 

 e Metodo dclla Pittura Encaufta ; Memoria del Ch. Sig. 

 Giov. Fabbroni, &e. Roma, 1707. Quarto,. 



I 



TALY is much indebted to the penetration of the learned 

 Abbe Requeno for again bringing forward to the notice of 

 modern painters w^x-painting, (pittura cncazijla,) which 

 was forgotten, and confidered as entirely loft. 



The ftimulus of curiofity always keeps alive and vigilant 

 that laudable ambition to which we owe the mod valuable 

 dilcoveries; and writers are ever ready to catch the new idea, 

 cither to appropriate it to themfelves, or at leaft to partici- 

 pate in the honour of it. By the collifion of their various 

 attacks on each other, truth is thruft forwards fo as to be 

 more diftincUy feen than before, and the difcovcry thus 

 acquires more vaiue, and can be employed with more ad- 

 vantage. ■• ■ . 



No fooner had Requeno, whofe. merit .entitles him to ft 

 much praife, made known the refultof his researches, than 

 a numerous body appeared to examine the advantages ol it, 

 or to (hare in the approbation bellowed on it. Some ex- 

 plained the clanks in a manner different from what he had 

 done, and others propofed methods which they confidered as 

 fuperior. Wax, in all probability, forms the only ground of 

 encauftic painting. Requeno, from his own ideas, adds 

 maftic; but Lorgna converts no lefs*abfolutely his wax into 

 foap ; as Bachelier does with the alkali of foda. The inge- 

 nious Aftori, difpleafed with both their readings, wifhes no 

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