CERUSSA

CERUSSA (n. f.)

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BIANCO (ita.) · BLEIWEIß (deu.) · CERUSE (eng.) · CÉRUSE (fra.) · LOODWIT (nld.) · WEISS (deu.) · WIT (nld.)

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PEACHAM, Henry, The Gentlemans Exercise. Or, An exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of Beasts in their true Portraitures : as also the making of all kinds of colours, to be used in Limning, Painting, Tricking, and Blazon of Coates, and Armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations, for all young Gentlemen and others. As also Serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of divers Trades-men and Artificers, as namely Painters, Ioners, Free-Masons, Cutters and Carvers, &c. for the farther gracing, beautifying, and garnishing of all their absolute and worthy pieces, either for Borders, Architects, or Columnes, &c., London, J. Legat, 1634.

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The First Booke of Drawing and Limning, Chap XXIII, The Etymologie and true mixture of colours, p. 73

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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, […].

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