# THE TECHNIQUE OF FRESCO PAINTING

THE TECHNIQUE OF FRESCO PAINTING Produced: 1936 Description Students at Evander Childs High School, New York City, paint a mural depicting the history of western civilization. Reel 1, the materials (slaked lime, marble dust, and pigments) are prepared. Preliminary and full-size drawings and perforated tracings are made. The design is pounded through the perforations onto a recently plastered wall. Reel 2, the design lines are intensified and pigments applied and dried. Shows the finished mural. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12368

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1936
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/69-55)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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