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DR. LAURIE, who is principal of the Heriot-Watt College at Edinburgh, has devoted much time and considerable ingenuity to the study of the materials and methods of painting. Many of his results are recorded in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts and in other periodicals. But in the little book now before us we possess, in a detached and accessible form, an account of Dr. Laurie's latest studies on fresco- and wax-painting as described by Pliny and Vitruvius and practised in classic times. As the volume is not supplied with a table of contents, and is not divided into chapters, it may be well, in the present notice, to describe, in the order followed by the author, the several topics which he discusses.
Greek and Roman Methods of Painting: Some Comments on the Statements made by Pliny and Vitruvius about Wall and Panel Painting.
By Dr. A. P. Laurie. Pp. vi + 124. (Cambridge: University Press, 1910.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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C., A. Greek and Roman Methods of Painting: Some Comments on the Statements made by Pliny and Vitruvius about Wall and Panel Painting . Nature 84, 265 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084265a0
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