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The pictures of the Greek masters, which were painted on the wood of the abies, or pine of the Mediterranean, likewise, as we are informed by Pliny, owed their destruction not to a change in the colours, not to the alteration of the calcareous ground on which they were painted, but to the decay of the tablets of wood on which the intonaco or stucco was laid.

—Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher

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The pictures of the Greek masters, which were painted on the wood of the abies, or pine of the Mediterranean, likewise, as we are informed by Pliny, owed their destruction not to a change in the colours, not to the alteration of the calcareous ground on which they were painted, but to the decay of the tablets of wood on which the intonaco or stucco was laid. — Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher
To grant me a taste of your intonaco, — An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
-- Heaton. intonaco: rough-casting. — An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
So grant me a taste of your intonaco -- — Early Reviews of English Poets
intonaco: rough-casting Lorenzo Monaco: see under the Monologue of Fra Lippo Lippi 27 Could not the ghost with the close red cap My Pollajolo, the twice a craftsman Save me a sample, give me the hap Of a muscular Christ that shows the draughtsman No Virgin by him the somewhat petty Of finical touch and tempera crumbly Could not Alesso Baldovinetti Contribute so much, I ask him humbly St. 27. Pollajolo: "Antonio Pollajuolo (ab. — An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry