flesh-painting

Updated: July 15, 2025

It may, at least, be held for certain that no one ever handled colours better than he, and that no craftsman ever painted with greater delicacy or with more relief, such was the softness of his flesh-painting, and such the grace with which he finished his works.

Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects: Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo