Abstract
MR. DANIEL THOMPSON has been engaged ±V1 for many years in the study of the large number of medieval MSS. containing recipes for carriers, grounds, pigments and mediums which are to be found in the libraries, both in Great Britain and elsewhere in Europe. The actual number of MSS. examined amounts to 157, and in this simply written book we have the outcome of a laborious research, involving problems in translation, and the testing out of many recipes in the laboratory and the studio.
The Materials of Medieval Painting
By Daniel V. Thompson. Pp. 239. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1936.) 7s. 6d. net.
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LAURIE, A. The Materials of Medieval Painting. Nature 138, 266–267 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138266a0
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