Lexicographical Neighbors of Smalto
Literary usage of Smalto
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illuminated Manuscripts in Classical and Mediaeval Times: Their Art and by John Henry Middleton (1892)
"smalto blue is simply a powdered blue glass or vitreous enamel, ... smalto blue
is largely used for the simple blue initials which alternate with red ones ..."
2. Readings on the Inferno of Dante: Based Upon the Commentary of Benvenuto Da by Dante Alighieri, William Warren Vernon, Edward Moore (1906)
"smalto : There is overwhelming evidence in the Gran Dizionario that Dante is not
here speaking of enamel, which is only a subsidiary signification of smalto ..."
3. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1862)
"The actual purchases made by Mr. Penrose for the purpose of experimenting upon
were as follows:—1200 cakes of gilt smalto, sufficient when cut up and ..."
4. The Art of Fresco Painting: As Practised by the Old Italian and Spanish by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1846)
"From this passage we may infer that more than one sort of smalto was in use in
Italy, and that one of these was of the same nature as the ..."
5. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1848)
"This is done by striking the smalto with a sharp-edged hammer, ... breaks the
smalto to very nearly the shape required; and it is then more ..."
6. Original Treatises: Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1849)
"There is little doubt that the " smalto di Fiandra " was ... One kind of azzurro
di smalto only is mentioned by Borghini;' this he states was composed of ..."
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