[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c14.s2.32 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c14.s2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c14.s2.32) 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). - [Previous: c14.s2.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c14.s2.31) - [Next: c14.s2.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c14.s2.33) - [Up: c14.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c14.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c14.s2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c14.s2.32) · Pramāṇa