The Ten Books on Architecture, 7.10.1

Vitruvius  translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

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Artificial Colours. Black.

10I shall now pass to those substances which by artificial treatment are made to change their composition, and to take on the properties of colours; and first I shall treat of black, the use of which is indispensable in many works, in order that the fixed technical methods for the preparation of that compound may be known.

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