BOOK I 



earth, 9 drugs from it ; Egyptian earth ; yellow 

 ochre ; 3 drugs from red ochre ; gold size ; Parae- 

 tonium white ; MeUan white ; 6 drugs from it ; 

 burnt white-lead ; earth of Eretria, 6 drugs from it ; 

 sandarach ; vermiUon ; Syrian ; black ink ; dark 

 purple ink; indigo, 4 drugs from it; ultramarine, 

 1 di'ug from it ; Appian green ; signet-ring white. 

 (xxxi-iii) Colours that cannot be painted on a damp 

 surface. Colours used by painters of early dates. 

 When battles of gladiators were first painted and 

 exhibited. (xxxiv-xH) The antiquity of painting; 

 405 celebrated cases of paintings and artists ; earUest 

 painting competition ; painters that used the brush ; 

 how to check the song of birds ; what painters used 

 encaustic or waxes or graver or brush ; inventors of 

 successive improvements in painting ; the most 

 difficult thing in painting ; kinds of painting ; first 

 painter of panelled ceifings ; vaulted roofs, when 

 first painted ; remarkable prices for pictures ; the 

 talent. (xhii-xhd) The first discoveries of modelHng ; 

 who first took a mould of a face ; 14 celebrated cases 

 of artists in modehing ; works in pottery ; Segni 

 plaster. (xlvii-Hx) Varieties of earth : PozzuoH 

 dust and other kinds of earth used for concrete ; 

 walls cast in moulds ; brickwork and employment of 

 bi'ick ; brimstone and its kinds ; 14 drugs ; bitumen 

 and its Idnds ; 27 drugs ; alum and its kinds ; 38 

 drugs therefrom ; Samian earth ; 3 drugs therefrom ; 

 Eretrian earth, its kinds ; on washing earth to make 

 a drug ; Chian earth ; 3 drugs therefrom ; earth of 

 SeHnunte ; 3 drugs therefrom ; potters' clay ; 9drugs 

 therefrom ; vine-earth ; 4 drugs therefrom ; chalks 

 for use in connexion with clothes ; earth of Kimolo ; 

 9 di-ugs therefrom ; earth of Sardis, of Umbria, rock ; 



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