CERUSSA (n. f.)

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the principal whites in painting and limning are these. viz.
Ceruse.
White Lead.
Spanish White.
 
Of whites and their tempering. Venice Ceruse.

Your principall white is Ceruse, called in Latine
Cerussa, by the Italian Biacea. Vitruvius teacheth the making of it, […] ; it hath been much used (as is it also now adaies) by women in painting their faces, […].
           
White Lead.

White Lead is in a manner the same that Ceruse is, save that the Ceruse is refined and made more pure, […].

Conceptual field(s)

MATERIALITE DE L’ŒUVRE → couleurs