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FRESCO   PAINTING

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FRESCO   PAINTING
ITS   ART   AND   TECHNIQUE

WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE BUONO
AND SPIRIT FRESCO METHODS

BY
JAMES WARD

AUTHOR OF
“PRINCIPLES OF ORNAMENT,” “COLOUR HARMONY AND CONTRAST,”
“HISTORIC ORNAMENT,” “PROGRESSIVE DESIGN,” ETC.


With Four Plates in Colour and Thirty-one Half-tone Illustrations
of Italian and other Fresco Paintings

LONDON
CHAPMAN AND HALL, Ltd.
1909

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Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND
BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

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PREFACE

I have endeavoured in this treatise to place before students somepractical hints in the methods and processes of fresco painting, whichare the outcome of my experience in the practice of the “buon-fresco,”and the “spirit-fresco” systems of wall decoration. As to thestereochrome, or German “water-glass,” and its later variety, the Keimsprocess of fresco painting, I do not pretend to have a definiteknowledge, having no practical experience in painting in these methods,but, on seeing the condition of some frescos in England which have beenexecuted in stereochromy, I should prefer to trust to the buon-fresco orto the spirit-fresco mediums when it is a question of the permanency ofwall paintings.

It is common enough to-day to hear and to read of the condemnation offresco painting by critics, and even by some eminent artists, all ofwhom seem to echo each other in pointing out the failures in theexamples executed on the walls of the Houses of Parliament and otherplaces; and all agree, because of these failures, that fresco paintingis impossible in this country, owing to the dampness of the{vi} climate.Our damp climate seems to have a deal to answer for, but it is hardlyfair to blame it for the ignorance of some of our mid-Victorian artistsas to the nature and behaviour of the materials used in fresco painting,and for their possibly limited knowledge of the chemistry of colours andthe after action of caustic lime on the colours they u

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