A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c14.s2.32
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c14.s2.32
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³ For a good summary account of the European processes see the article ‘Fresco’ in Chambers's *Encyclopaedia* (1905). Mr. J. L. Kipling, a competent authority, states that the fresco-painting on the walls of the mosque of Wazir Khan at Lahore, ‘which is very freely painted and in good style, is true fresco-painting, the *buono fresco* of the Italians, and, like the inlaid ceramic work, is now no longer practised, modern native decoration being usually *fresco secco*, or mere distemper painting’ (*Lahore Guide*, 1876; quoted in Birdwood, *Industrial Arts of India* (1880), p. 228).