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5. Gettens, R.]., <strong>and</strong> M. E. Mrose. 1954. Calcium sulphate minerals in the grounds<br />
of Italian paintings. Studies in Conservation (4):182-83.<br />
6. Valcanover, F. 1990. An introduction to Titian. In Titian, Prince oj Painters. Venice,<br />
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7. The only documentary evidence for it can be fo und in the fifteenth-century<br />
manuscript in Modena Biblioteca Estense (MS a.T.7.3), fol. 3r. Also see Wallert,<br />
A. 1984. Orpiment <strong>and</strong> realgar, some pigment characteristics. MaltechniklRestauro<br />
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York: Dover Publications.<br />
9. Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense MS 2265, fol. 91r, describes the making of the<br />
blue glass. On fol. 88r, the manuscript describes the actual processing of the glass<br />
into a pigment for painting: "A macinare ismalto azuro che poi pingere in suo<br />
colori. Pilia il smalto et rompelo sotile poi macinelo sopra il porfido cun sorro<br />
de ovo cun uno pocho di melle. Masinalo sutile como vopi et se <strong>and</strong>asse secondo<br />
azonze uno pocho de aqua. Et qu<strong>and</strong>o e masinato lava fora il mele et 10 ovo<br />
cun l'aqua e remanera cossa bellisima."<br />
10. Wallert, A. 1991. "Cimatura de grana"; Identification of natural organic colorants<br />
<strong>and</strong> binding media in mediaeval manuscript illumination. Zeitschrijt ju r Kunsttechnologie<br />
und Konservierung (5):74-83.<br />
11. Merrifield, M. P. 1849. Original Treatises on the Arts if <strong>Painting</strong>, Vol. II. London:<br />
John Murray, 667.<br />
12. Kiihn, H. 1964. Griinspan und seine Verwendung in der Malerei. Farbe und Lack,<br />
(70):703-1 1.<br />
13. Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense MS 2265, fol. 99r : "A fa r stagnolo verde. Piglia<br />
vernice liquida e olio de linosa equal misura e meteli denmtro verderame bene<br />
pulverizato. Poi fa bolire tanto che habia il colore a tuo modo. Poi 10 adopeera."<br />
The result of this recipe is a complex copper resinate/oleate compound. This<br />
recipe shows that copper resinates were not always made of Venice turpentine<br />
as is generally assumed on the basis of a description in De Mayerne's treatise.<br />
14. Jaffe, M., <strong>and</strong> K. Groen. 1987. Titian's Tarquin <strong>and</strong> Lucrezia in the Fitzwilliam.<br />
The Burlington Magazine, (CXXIX):162-71.<br />
15. Lucas, A., <strong>and</strong> J. Plesters. 1978. Titian's Bacchus <strong>and</strong> Ariadne. National Callery<br />
Technical Bulletin (2) :25-48, especially 4 1.<br />
16. Plesters, op. cit., 32-48.<br />
17. Heidegger, M. 1970. Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes. Stuttgart: Reclam Verlag, 66.<br />
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