Mural painting in America; the Scammon lectures, delivered before the Art institute of Chicago, March, 1912, and since greatly enlarged, by Edwin Howland Blashfield; (1913)
Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 42
nze and marble of Romandecoration, the mosaic of the Byzantines, and thewater-color of the Middle Ages, adding the one im-portant factor of oil-painting. How much oil-paint-ing was independent, how much it was based ontempera, and just when it became pure oil-paintingwe do not know, perhaps never… … r 2^3 IMPORTANCE OF DECORATION 15 need not discuss, save to note that the painters fellso much in love with the new sciences as to forcetoo much modelling into their frescoes, and therebyso confuse them that a process of elimination underthe hands of Michelangelo, Raphael, or Titian, be-came…
Mural painting and decoration · Painting
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