Lexicographical Neighbors of Camaieux
Literary usage of Camaieux
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rubens: His Life, His Work, and His Time by Emile Michel (1899)
"Rubens's eager desire for knowledge doubtless led him to study the conditions of
this method, and he himself attempted similar camaieux for several of ..."
2. The Wonders of Engraving by Georges Duplessis (1871)
"... and to this day these camaieux, as they are called, give us with a valuable
exactitude copies -of the Flemish painter's designs. ..."
3. Original Treatises: Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1849)
"camaieux, ce sont figures faites de blanc et noir ou de rouge ou de quelqu'autre
couleur. 43. Le profil de Michel-ange, le coloris de Raphael, ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"It is of these camaieux Pliny is to be understood when he speaks of the manifold
picture of gems, and the party- coloured spots of precious stones ..."
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