MURAL PAINTING (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Mural PaintingThe inadequacy of ordinary methods of reproduction to an intelligible exposition of the qualities peculiar to mural painting has necessarily curtailed the number of illustrations. The linear interpretation of a picture is not without value, seeing that it translates the composi tion, forms, and often the light and shade. For these reasons it has been utilized, but it gives no insight whatever into those technical peculiarities that differ entiate one process from another