It's what they call anencaustic painting, like the Muse of Cortona, probably of the time of Tiberius.
For the altar Scott himself designed its new reredos, and the greater part of the eastern arm was floored by him with encaustic tiles, though some would have preferred a pavement less showy and glittering in effect.
Scott a glittering floor of encaustic tiles; but much of the pavement of the south transept and its aisle is still of plain stone.
If done with wax, encaustic or varnish, it is an effective protection for the surface of the leather against deterioration from outside causes.
Pure wax, which must be softened in the hand to make it spread evenly, encaustic and spirit varnish are all efficacious in preserving the colour and increasing its transparency.
We allude to the Roman works in mosaic, which have furnished designs for our encaustic tile-manufacturers and our floor-cloth painters.
The variety and beauty of design and colour in encaustic tiles adopted by mediævalists, may be slightly illustrated by the quaint specimen of foliation copied in Fig.
The value of an encaustic paste in improving the effect of photographic prints has become very generally recognised amongst photographers.
The encaustic paste is put on the prints in patches, and then rubbed with a light, quick motion, with a piece of flannel, until a firm, fine surface is obtained.
Various formulae for the preparation of encaustic pastes have been published, and many of them very excellent.
In the same category with colored bricks (indeed, they are a sort of spiritualized bricks) are the brilliant-hued encaustic tile that are finding their way hither across the Atlantic.
Encaustic painting was practised both with the cestrum and the pencil, and the colors were also burned in.
The writing ink then used was usually made of lamp-black, gum, and vinegar; it had but a feeble encaustic property, and it did not bite in or penetrate the parchment.
Writing ink, thickened with gum, has but a feeble encaustic property.
He does not say what fluid was used to mix these materials, but he does allude to an occasional use of acid, to give the ink encaustic property and to make it bite in the papyrus.
These saloons, lofty, spacious, and numerous, had been decorated principally in encaustic by the most celebrated artists of Munich.
It was a vast chamber of white marble, the golden panels of the walls containing festive sculptures by Schwanthaler, relieved by encaustic tinting.
During the year 1862, in the course of accidental excavations on the site of the Friary, at Derby, a number of encaustic tiles, such as were used for the floors of the interiors of churches and large buildings, were found.
Both had now got a taste of blood, and there is nothing like that to put the lust of combat into a man.
He looked at his watch again, and she mistook the action.
Encaustic tiles--so called because the patterns are burnt into them--are by far the most common sort of tile pavement in our English churches, especially in the southern and western counties.
The cross alone, floriated, is frequently composed of many tiles; but it enters too into the great majority of those geometrical and floriated patterns which form so large a portion of the encaustic pavements of most churches.
He built extensive works, and began to make majolica and encaustic tiles, slabs, panels, and other similar wares.
The fresco wall, when painted, was covered with an encaustic varnish, both to heighten the color and preserve it from the effects of the sun or the weather.
Encaustic painting was practiced both with the cestrum and the pencil, and the colors were also burnt in.
He used the pencil, instead of painting in encaustic with the cestrum.
Now, though this curious edifice had been designed for a summer-house, and for that purpose lined throughout with encaustic tiles, nobody as a matter of fact had ever dreamed of using it to sit in.
But notwithstanding all the encaustic tiles in the world, damp will gather in a hollow like this, and the damp alone was an objection.
First, having lit another lantern which was kept there, he removed with the sharp end of the pickaxe a large patch of the encaustic tiles exactly in the centre of the depression.
The old oak sliding shutters are still there, and two more fine stone mantelpieces; on one hearth the original encaustic tiles with patterns, chiefly a Maltese cross, and the oak cill surrounding them, are in situ.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encaustic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
