PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I THE RELATIONSHIP OF MURAL PAINTING TO ARCHITECTURE
CHAPTER II MURAL DECORATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS
CHAPTER III FRESCO-BUONO PROCESS COLOURS PREPARATION OF THE WALL METHOD OF EXECUTION
CHAPTER IV PAINTING OF FLESH AND DRAPERIES PERMANENCE OF BUON-FRESCO
CHAPTER V SPIRIT FRESCO PAINTING
CHAPTER VI TECHNICAL NOTES ON THE COMPOSITION, COLOUR, AND PRESENT STATE OF SOME ITALIAN FRESCOS
CHAPTER VII FRESCO PAINTINGS BY GOZZOLI AND PERUGINO
CHAPTER VIII THE WORK OF PINTURICCHIO AND GHIRLANDAJO
CHAPTER IX FRESCOS BY ANDREA DEL SARTO, LUINI, G. FERRARI, RAFFAELLE AND MICHAEL ANGELO
INDEX
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FRESCO PAINTING
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
Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND
BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.
