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Encaustic

Colors & materials

Pigment in hot wax, fixed by heat — Fayum portraits and ancient talk. Not beeswax alone, and not ordinary wax id.

Roman religion

  • Encaustic appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats encaustic painting among wax-fused picture crafts. A named encaustic method in that encyclopedia, not wax as the drug base alone and not distemper as a glue-paint dump.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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