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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: FLOORS
CHAPTER II: THE SLAKING OF LIME FOR STUCCO
CHAPTER III: VAULTINGS AND STUCCO WORK
CHAPTER IV: ON STUCCO WORK IN DAMP PLACES, AND ON THE DECORATION OF DINING ROOMS
CHAPTER V: THE DECADENCE OF FRESCO PAINTING
CHAPTER VI: MARBLE FOR USE IN STUCCO
CHAPTER VII: NATURAL COLOURS
CHAPTER VIII: CINNABAR AND QUICKSILVER
CHAPTER IX: CINNABAR (continued)
CHAPTER X: ARTIFICIAL COLOURS. BLACK
CHAPTER XI: BLUE. BURNT OCHRE
CHAPTER XII: WHITE LEAD, VERDIGRIS, AND ARTIFICIAL SANDARACH
CHAPTER XIII: PURPLE
CHAPTER XIV: SUBSTITUTES FOR PURPLE, YELLOW OCHRE, MALACHITE GREEN, AND INDIGO
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1. I WILL now return to the preparation of vermilion. When the lumps of ore are dry, they are crushed in iron mortars, and repeatedly washed and heated until the impurities are gone, and the colours come. When the cinnabar has given up its quicksilver, and thus lost the natural virtues that it previously had, it becomes soft in quality and its powers are feeble.
Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture. Vitruvius. Morris Hicky Morgan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1914.
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