A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . there be 7 fortes of fimple colours, from whichall the reft arifc. Of thefe 2 are extreamcs,as white &Blackcjind 5 middle,as ItgbtyealloTC, redde,purple ,BleweandGreene. Now concerning the generation of colours, Colde produceth white,wherevnto much light is required. Hcate ingendreth Blacke, proceedingfrom a fmale quantity of light and much hcate. Red is made by the mix-ture of white, and blacke. Violet or pale ofmuch white and a little red:Sa-fron colour or yeallow ofmuch red & little white. Purple ofmuch
A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . there be 7 fortes of fimple colours, from whichall the reft arifc. Of thefe 2 are extreamcs,as white &Blackcjind 5 middle,as ItgbtyealloTC, redde,purple ,BleweandGreene. Now concerning the generation of colours, Colde produceth white,wherevnto much light is required. Hcate ingendreth Blacke, proceedingfrom a fmale quantity of light and much hcate. Red is made by the mix-ture of white, and blacke. Violet or pale ofmuch white and a little red:Sa-fron colour or yeallow ofmuch red & little white. Purple ofmuch red anda little blacke,and grecne of a little blacke and much red. And this may fuf-fice for the foundation and originall of colours. Wherefore now I come tothe matters whereof they are made. OF OF QOLOV\S. 99 ft # ft ft ft ft_ft ft ft ft ft ftftftftftftftftftftftft «*As tr-ts c7tJ\5 e>^» ct1^? ctijvs e>«-^s eJfc^.«> ;i. sine,-a* ##ftftftftftftftftftftftftft#ftft##ftft OF THE MATTERS OF COLOVRS,CHAT, HE Matters of all fuch colours as are in generallvfewith vs now a daies, are for the moft part, firft the matters of whites arc gvpfum, Cerufie, the pouder of white marble. And hereby the wayl wil difcouer a rare fecret,which wil caufethe colours in Frifco to continue as faireas if theywere laid while the chalke is frefh: namely the whireof an cgge beaten very thin and mixed with your co-lours as occafionfhallferue: the pureft andfayreft whereof being (trainedvery thin, ferveth to make a good carnation in diftemper. The matters ofyeallowe, are thcyeallorce of the Flaunders fornace and of ^/w^3common -ly called which make blewe arc the ultramarine that oiHongary, and alfo Smaltes 3 of which that ofFlanders, is coun-ted the beft. 1 hey which make Greenes; zregreene bize, Verdigreafe,ver ? Greenes,detto called holy ^inclining towards aye allow (which with vs is called///?/-?)verditer, and ver
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