The Art of Fresco Painting in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield

Fresco painting was reintroduced to public attention in this important work by a recognized authority. In addition to translating descriptions of painting methods used by such masters as Alberti, Cennini, Vasari, and Borghini, the author also discusses causes of fresco destruction and how to retouch, repair, and clean these works of art.

134 pages, Paperback

First published January 22, 2004

About the author

from wikipedia article:

Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (née Watkins; 15 April 1804 – 4 January 1889) was a British writer on art and fashion. She later became an algologist (an expert on seaweed).

Life
She was born Mary Philadelphia Watkins in Brompton, London in 1804. Her father, Sir Charles Watkins, was a barrister who specialised in transferring property ownership. In 1826/7, she married John Merrifield[1] and gave birth in 1827 to a son, Charles Watkins Merrifield, and a second son Frederick Merrifield in 1831.[2] They later moved to Dorset Gardens, Brighton. Her husband worked as a barrister and she undertook the translation of a book on painting by the 15th-century artist Cennino Cennini. The book, Treatise of Painting, was published in 1844.[1]

In 1846 she published The Art of Fresco Painting, which was a commission for the Royal Commission on the Fine Arts, being assisted by her two sons.[3] In 1850 she exhibited her paintings in the first art exhibition held in Brighton's Royal Pavilion.[4

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