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Die Maltechnik des Altertums : nach den Quellen, Funden, chemischen Analysen und eigenen Versuchen

Berger, Ernst, 1857-1919 · 1904 · München : G.D.W. Callwey · 15 pictures

Die Maltechnik des Altertums is a German technical treatise on ancient painting methods, written by Ernst Berger and published in Munich in 1904 for painters, conservators and scholars. Its pictures are halftone plates and line drawings of Egyptian wall paintings, painted reliefs and a Pompeian-style fresco, reproduced in reddish-brown and grey tones that show how the surfaces were worked.

Painting, Ancient · Painting

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