Mural Or Monumental Decoration: Its Aims and Methods. Comprising
: MURAL OR MONUMENTAL DECORATION |ts aims airtj HTctbous COMPRISING FRESCO. WATER-GLASS. ENCAUSTIC. MOSAIC. OIL PAINTING. WITH AN APPENDIX. BY W. CAVE THOMAS, AUTHOR OF "THE SCIENCE OF MODERATION," " METRONOMT, OR THE SCIENCE OF PROPORTION," ETC, ETC. Zv& profcat atttficent. LONDON: WINSOR AND NEWTON, 38, RATHBONE PLACE, W. hVji T4T- :,•'. \: . * ! . •• • • • • • ••••»•• •• ••- ••••.*• • • . - •.• LONDON': PH1NTED BY J. OGDEN AND CO., 172, ST. JOHN STEEET, E.C. PREFACE In order to save students the trouble and loss of time incidental to searching for and consulting scattered authorities, a body of trustworthy in- formation will be found here collected, and arranged upon those processes which have been more or less used in Mural or Monumental Deco- ration, viz., Fresco, Encaustic, Water-glass, Mosaic, and Oil-Painting ; information too, which it is hoped will prove not altogether uninteresting to the general reader. The author having studied Fresco-painting in Munich under the direction of Professors Cornelius and Hess, was enabled to furnish the Koyal Commission on the Fine Arts with information on that special process, which was, together with other materials, carefully supervised by its Hon. Secretary the late Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, and printed and published in the Com- missioners' Eeports. It may he recollected that the Royal Commission on the Fine Arts was in- stituted for the special purpose of promoting and encouraging a more extended practice of mural painting in this country. 3589ol IV PREFACE. By the moderns Encaustic painting lias been less practised than Fresco ; it is therefore in a more uncertain experimental condition, no one method being yet recognised and generally adopted.
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