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Those old paintings at Milan, Pisa, Naples, Vienna, and elsewhere, have been carefully examined and proved to have been painted in encaustic or distemper.— Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)
These walls were painted in encaustic, corresponding with the coved ceiling, which was richly adorned in the same fashion.— Tancred Or, The New Crusade
[21 Rossetti's powerful ballad, "The King's Tragedy," was suggested by the mural paintings (encaustic) with which William Bell Scott decorated the circular staircase of Penkill Castle in 1865-68.— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
Tiles, plain, encaustic, and decorated; mosaics, bricks, paving bricks, pipes.— Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

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