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Encaustic

noun
1.
A paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application.





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"Encaustic" Quotes from Famous Books



... ENCAUSTIC PAINTING, an ancient style of decorative art somewhat similar to enamelling, which consisted in overlaying the surface (e. g. of walls) with wax, then inlaying a coloured design, the ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... Cimon, some being simple drawings, and others paintings in various colours or monochromes. It was even said that Candaules had not disdained to wield with his own royal hands—a thing hardly becoming a prince—the chisel of the sculptor and the sponge of the encaustic painter. ...
— King Candaules • Theophile Gautier
... painted all round with a deep hedge of orchard and woodland plants, pomegranates, apples, arbutus, small pines and spruce firs, all most lovingly and knowingly given, with birds nesting and pecking, in brilliant enamel like encaustic on an ...
— The Spirit of Rome • Vernon Lee


Words linked to "Encaustic" :   paint, pigment


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