[Rarebooks] FS: 1856 Fresco Painting History

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “The Art of Fresco Painting, as practiced by the Old Italian and 
Spanish Masters, with a Preliminary Inquiry into the nature of the 
Colours Used in Fresco Painting, with observations and notes”

By Mary Philadelphia Merrifield.
Published in London for the author by Charles Gilpin in 1846.

DISCUSSION: An influential and important study, commissioned by the 
British government, which translated and analyzed instructional texts on 
the painting of frescos from Antiquity to the 17th century, with an eye 
toward the promotion of an English school of fresco painters. A year 
earlier Mrs. Merrifield had completed her famous translation of Cennino 
Cennini's "Libro dell' arte", and as important as her works were from a 
practical standpoint for the 19th century artist, among whom she was 
especially influential with the Pre-Raphaelites, "the main importance of 
her work lies in her development of the historical study of documents" 
(Ernstrom, Grove Dictionary of Art). Historical documents are all well 
and good, but Mrs. Merrifield was aiming higher- "I firmly believe," she 
wrote in her Introduction, "that fresco painting will be extensively and 
successfully practiced in this country, by our own native artists, and 
will ultimately attain a perfection, equal to that for which the Italian 
schools were so justly celebrated".

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 6"x9", lvi + 134 pages; publisher's brown cloth 
with blindstamped patterns, gilt spine title.  No illustrations.

CONDITION NOTES: Some minor soil and light wear but otherwise clean and 
nice, with a tight binding.

PRICE: $100 net

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