The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)Pliny, the Elder
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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)
Pliny, the Elder
Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
36. Smegma 204
37. Diphryx _ib._
38. Particulars relative to the Servilian triens 205
39. Iron ores _ib._
40. Statues of iron; chased works in iron 206
41. The different kinds of iron, and the mode of tempering
it _ib._
42. The metal called live iron 209
43. Methods of preventing rust _ib._
44. Seven remedies derived from iron 210
45. Fourteen remedies derived from rust 211
46. Seventeen remedies derived from the scales of iron.
Hygremplastrum _ib._
47. The ores of lead 212
48. Stannum. Argentarium 214
49. Black lead 215
50. Fifteen remedies derived from lead 216
51. Fifteen remedies derived from the scoria of lead 218
52. Spodium of lead _ib._
53. Molybdæna: fifteen remedies _ib._
54. Psimithium, or ceruse; six remedies 219
55. Sandarach: eleven remedies 220
56. Arrhenicum _ib._
BOOK XXXV.
AN ACCOUNT OF PAINTINGS AND COLOURS.
1. The honour attached to painting 223
2. The honour attached to portraits 224
3. When shields were first invented with portraits upon them;
and when they were first erected in public 227
4. When these shields were first placed in private houses _ib._
5. The commencement of the art of painting. Monochrome
paintings. The earliest painters 228
6. The antiquity of painting in Italy 229
7. Roman painters 230
8. At what period foreign paintings were first introduced at
Rome 232
9. At what period painting was first held in high esteem at Rome,
and from what causes _ib._
10. What pictures the Emperors have exhibited in public 233
11. The art of painting 234
12. Pigments other than those of a metallic origin. Artificial
colours 235
13. Sinopis: eleven remedies _ib._
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