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BLUEING, of metals, is performed by heating them in the
lire till they affume a blue colour; particularly pradifed by gil-
ders, who blue their metals before they apply the gold and filver
leaf.
BLUENESS, is the quality of any blue body; or it is fuch
a fize and texture of the parts, which compofes the lurface
of a body, as difpofes them to reflect the blue or azure rays of
light, and thofe only to the eye.
B. M. VVV. fignifies Bernardo Malpucci of Mantua, pain-
ter and engraver ; he engraved in wood with three tools ; with
the firft he made the profile, with the fecond the fhadows, and
with the third the light.
Bol. inventor 1 fignifies Julio Bonafoni, of Bologna.
Bonafo fc. 1545. ) & to
BOASTING, is reprefented by a woman making a great
(hew, covered with peacock's feathers ; with a trumpet in her
left-hand, and her right in the air.
The feathers denote pride,the mother of Boafting; the trum-
pet alfo intimates felf Boafting, or founding one's own fame,
being blown by one's own breath ; for vain boafters take delight
in publifhing their own actions.
BODY, as to bear a Body, a term ufed of painting colours ;
and fignifies, that the colours are of fuch a nature, as to be
capable of being ground fo fine, and mixing with the oil fo in-
tirely, as to feem only a very thick oil of the lame colour.
But fuch colours as are faid not to bear a Body, will readily
part with the oil, when laid on the work ; fo that, when the
colour mall be laid on a piece of work, there will be a fepara-
tion, the colour in fome parts, and the clear oil in others; ex-
cept they are tempered extraordinary thick.
Edward du BOIS, was a hiftory and landfcape-painter, but
chiefly the latter, born at Antwerp. He was difciple to one
Groenwegen, a landfcape-painter likewife, who refided many
years in England, and had been fome time in Italy. Du Bois
alfo travelled to Italy, where he continued eight years, during all
which time he ftudied the antiques, and painted after the Italian
tafte.
He worked fome time at Paris, and, in his way to Italy, did
feveral pieces for Charles Emanuel, Duke of Savoy. Soon after
his return to Holland, he came to England, and died in Lon-
don, tbout fifty-five years ago, being feventy-feven years old.
He lies buried in St. Giles's church.
Rene BOIVIN, who engraved feveral plates of an-
cient foliages, ufed this mark. / . '
BOL-
2
BLUEING, of metals, is performed by heating them in the
lire till they affume a blue colour; particularly pradifed by gil-
ders, who blue their metals before they apply the gold and filver
leaf.
BLUENESS, is the quality of any blue body; or it is fuch
a fize and texture of the parts, which compofes the lurface
of a body, as difpofes them to reflect the blue or azure rays of
light, and thofe only to the eye.
B. M. VVV. fignifies Bernardo Malpucci of Mantua, pain-
ter and engraver ; he engraved in wood with three tools ; with
the firft he made the profile, with the fecond the fhadows, and
with the third the light.
Bol. inventor 1 fignifies Julio Bonafoni, of Bologna.
Bonafo fc. 1545. ) & to
BOASTING, is reprefented by a woman making a great
(hew, covered with peacock's feathers ; with a trumpet in her
left-hand, and her right in the air.
The feathers denote pride,the mother of Boafting; the trum-
pet alfo intimates felf Boafting, or founding one's own fame,
being blown by one's own breath ; for vain boafters take delight
in publifhing their own actions.
BODY, as to bear a Body, a term ufed of painting colours ;
and fignifies, that the colours are of fuch a nature, as to be
capable of being ground fo fine, and mixing with the oil fo in-
tirely, as to feem only a very thick oil of the lame colour.
But fuch colours as are faid not to bear a Body, will readily
part with the oil, when laid on the work ; fo that, when the
colour mall be laid on a piece of work, there will be a fepara-
tion, the colour in fome parts, and the clear oil in others; ex-
cept they are tempered extraordinary thick.
Edward du BOIS, was a hiftory and landfcape-painter, but
chiefly the latter, born at Antwerp. He was difciple to one
Groenwegen, a landfcape-painter likewife, who refided many
years in England, and had been fome time in Italy. Du Bois
alfo travelled to Italy, where he continued eight years, during all
which time he ftudied the antiques, and painted after the Italian
tafte.
He worked fome time at Paris, and, in his way to Italy, did
feveral pieces for Charles Emanuel, Duke of Savoy. Soon after
his return to Holland, he came to England, and died in Lon-
don, tbout fifty-five years ago, being feventy-feven years old.
He lies buried in St. Giles's church.
Rene BOIVIN, who engraved feveral plates of an-
cient foliages, ufed this mark. / . '
BOL-
2