Über die Maltechnik der Alten : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der römisch-pompejanischen Wandmalerei, nebst einer Anleitung zur mikroskopischen Untersuchung der Kunstwerke
A German scholarly treatise on ancient painting technique by Eduard Raehlmann, published in Berlin by Georg Reimer in 1910, aimed at art historians, conservators and microscopists studying Roman and Pompeian wall paintings. Its plates are colour cross-sections and microscope views of paint layers, grounds and pigment grains, showing stacked strata of red, blue, ochre and white. A designer might borrow the layered, stratified look of aged plaster and pigment, with speckled colour fields and rough edges.
