The Art of Fresco Painting: In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield

Known for its durability, a fresco painting is created in "sections" on freshly laid wet plaster, allowing the painter to comprehensively portray the subject and execute designs with ease. As both the paint and plaster dry, they become completely fused. Highly popular during the late-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, fresco painting was almost a lost art by the time this book was first published in 1846. This volume, by a recognized authority...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486432939
• ISBN13: 9780486432939
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"