Vasari on technique; being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects (1907)
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574, Maclehose, Louisa S, Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 · London : J. M. Dent & co. · leaf 355
the pleasantestmethod of painting. The truth is that the technique of buonfresco, while apparently understood by the Romans, was lostIn the west during the early middle ages, though It may havebeen maintained in the Byzantine cloisters. In the course ofthe progressive improvements in the art of… … PIEAD OF MARY, FROM LUINIS FRESCO OF THE MARRIAGEOF THE VH^GIN AT SARONNO (From a photograph by Giacomo Brogi) FRESCO AND TEMPERA 291 2nd ed., 1904, has denied that the Romans used the frescotechnique, and has evolved an ingenious theory of a derivationof fresco painting from the mural work in…
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