Category: Architecture
When considering the subject of mural painting, and indeed the progress and development of art generally, of the so-called “fine arts,” or of the lesser arts that minister to the uses and wants of everyday life, we cannot regard them as isolated creations of human activity apa...
When considering the subject of mural painting, and indeed the progress and development of art generally, of the so-called “fine arts,” or of the lesser arts that minister to th...
4. CHAPTER IIVarious processes, systems, or methods have been employed in ancient and modern times in the colour decoration of walls and ceilings. Under this section of art is included all k...
5. CHAPTER IIIFresco-buono, or true fresco, is so called because the painting is executed “a fresco,” that is, directly on the fresh, or wet plaster, which forms the painting surface of the w...
6. CHAPTER IVIn beginning the painting of flesh and draperies on the wet plaster, or indeed in any other kind of wall painting, it is important to commence with a kind of modified outline. T...
7. CHAPTER VThe method of painting followed out in the spirit-fresco system, as far as the manipulation of the colours is concerned, is almost precisely the same as that of the lime or buon...
8. CHAPTER VIDuring a visit to Italy in the summer of last year the writer made some notes on the composition, colour, technique, and present state of some of the Italian frescos, which he h...
9. CHAPTER VIIBenozzo Gozzoli (1420-97), the most celebrated pupil of Fra Angelico, is seen at his best in his great decorative frescos which adorn the four walls of a room in the Riccardi Pa...
10. CHAPTER VIIIBERNARDINO PINTURICCHIO of Perugia (1454-1513) was an excellent painter in fresco, although Vasari, in his _Lives of the Painters_, has done scant justice to his great merits. I...
11. CHAPTER IXIn the anterior court of the Church of the Santissima Annunziata, in Florence, there are five fairly well-preserved frescos by Andrea del Sarto (1488-1530). In the same court th...