Excerpt from History and Methods, of Ancient Modern Painting: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Renaissance Period Including the Methods and Materials of the Painter's Craft of Ancient and Modern Times IN this volume I have attempted to outline the History and Methods of Painting from the earliest Egyptian times to the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, and have endeavoured to explain and describe the materials used in painting in ancient and modern times. As this work is primarily written for the use of students, I have thought it best to treat of Painting in its broadest sense, which would include the use and application of colours and mediums in decorative and ornamental painting, as well as in other branches of this art, which are generally classed under the so-called fine arts, ' where the word painting is used in a more restricted sense, and is popularly but inaccurately understood to be limited to the art of painting pictures. We may go further than this, and say that in the more modern sense. Of the word, painting, as an art, is more particularly applied to pictures executed in an oil medium. Even pictures in water-colours, however carefully or elaborately painted, are known to the public and to the auctioneer as drawings. In the Whirligig of time the fine gold is chang Some words in our language have entirely lost their original meaning, while the meaning of others is becoming more narrowed and restricted. The mosaic designer and worker is a painter, and so is the embroiderer, although neither of them uses a brush in applying their colours to their pictures, but they both decorate or paint in colour. The former paints with his fingers, instead of a brush, and uses vitrified colours instead of moist pigments, while the latter paints with a needle, using coloured threads instead of paints. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.