Glossary (glos’e-re, glos’-) n. pl. -ries A lexicon of the technical obscure, or foreign words of a work or field. (<L glossarium <glossa, See GLOSS-) glossarial (glo-sar’ e’ el) adj. –glosssarially adv. — glossarist (glos’e rist, glos’) n.
Glossitis — Inflammation fo the tongue. Really …its in the dictionary.
To me, books about painting methods and materials that do not have a glossary are not much good. If it is good book, one worth having, but does not contain a glossary, I start one somewhere on one of those mysteriously blank pages that are always at the back or front of books.
All of my books are filled with highlighting, underlining, notes, scribbles, and sticky tabs in a rainbow of colors. It was an agonizing decision to make that first mark in a pristine $80.00 Rembrandt book, hardcover. But once that highlighter made its first neon appearance, there was no turning back. These markings make it immensely easier when going back for review of all kinds of subjects that captured my interested in the first place.
All sorts of books in my library, even ones by Cennino Cennini, DaVinci, Ernst von de Wetering, Velasquez, and Donald Fels, books about Rembrandt, Vermeer, Caravaggio, Hals, Femish painters, still life, landscape, and countless others have not escaped the wrath of my pesky highlighter. Fortunately, most have glossaries but those that don’t have my handmade ones on those mysterious blank pages.