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Mural painting and decoration

Here are entered general works on painting on wall surfaces. Works on outdoor mural painting decorating buildings in public thoroughfares and often drawing attention to contemporary urban problems such as drugs, minorities, police brutality, etc. are entered under Street art. Works on drawing on wall surfaces emphasizing the concept of drawing with the drawing usually visible for a limited period of time are entered under Wall drawing (Conceptual art).

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Modern Mural Decoration (London: G. Newnes, 1902), by A. L. Baldry
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Mural Paintings in English Churches During the Middle Ages: An Introductory Essay on the Folk Influence in Religious Art (London: J. Lane, c1923), by Frank Kendon
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Catalogue of the first exhibition of the National society of mural painters. February 4 to March 1, 1925. (Brooklyn museum press, 1925), by Brooklyn Museum and New York National Society of Mural Painters (page images at HathiTrust)
La pittura ellenistico-romana. (Fratelli Treves, 1929), by Giulio Emanuele Rizzo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Enkaustik und Fresko auf antiker Grundlage; eine Ergänzungsschrift zu "Bergers Beiträgen zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Maltechnik," (G. D. W. Callwey, 1926), by Hans Schmid and Ernst Berger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Practical hints on modelling, design, and mural decoration (Gibbings & company;, 1908), by Henry Francis William Ganz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
History of design in mural painting from the earliest times to the twelfth century, with an introduction on the art of the pre-Christian period (J. Parker and co.;, 1902), by Nat Hubert John Westlake (page images at HathiTrust)
Oriental forerunners of Byzantine painting; first-century wall paintings from the fortress of Dura on the middle Euphrates (The University of Chicago Press, 1924), by James Henry Breasted (page images at HathiTrust)
Appendice aux Lettres d'un antiquaire à un artiste sur l'emploi de la peinture historique murale dans la décoration des temples et des autres édifices publics ou particuliers chez les Grecs et les Romains ... (Heidel off et Campé, 1837), by M. Letronne (page images at HathiTrust)
Beiträge zur Chronologie der etruskischen Wandmalerei. (H. Hermann, 1926), by Franz Messerschmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Romanesque frescoes. (Princeton University Press, 1951), by Edgar Waterman Anthony (page images at HathiTrust)
Mural painting in America; the Scammon lectures, delivered before the Art Institute of Chicago, March, 1912, and since greatly enlarged (C.Scribner's sons, 1913), by Edwin Howland Blashfield (page images at HathiTrust)
American mural painting; a study of the important decorations by distinguished artists in the United States (Noyes, Platt & company, 1902), by Pauline King (page images at HathiTrust)
The art of fresco painting, pure technique & actual renaissance (Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1924), by R. La Montagne Saint Hubert (page images at HathiTrust)
Fresco painting, its art and technique, with special reference to the buono and spirit fresco methods (Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1909), by James Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
American decorative wall painting, 1700-1850. (Old Sturbridge Village, in cooperation with Studio Publications, New York City, 1952), by Nina Fletcher Little (page images at HathiTrust)
Wandmalerei, ihr Wesen und ihre Gesetze : mit 462 Abbildungen, darunter 266 Hifszeichnungen des Verfassers (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1920), by Hans Hildebrandt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A list of buildings in Great Britain and Ireland having mural and other painted decorations, of dates prior to the latter part of the sixteenth century, with historical introduction and alphabetical index of subjects (Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode for H. M. Stationery off., 1883), by South Kensington Museum and Charles Edward Keyser (page images at HathiTrust)
Gotische Wandmalerei in Niederösterreich; mit Unterstützung der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien; 76 abbildungen. (Amalthea-verlag, 1925), by Felix Reichmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Wandgemälde aus Schloss Lichtenberg in Tirol. ([Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft], 1916), by Julius von Schlosser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die dekorative malerei der renaissance am bayerischen hofe (F. Bruckmann a.-g., 1900), by Ernst von Bassermann-Jordan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Wandgemälde des grossen Saales im Hamburger Rathaus. : Die Entwürfe von Gehrts und Geselschap. Das Ergebnis des allgemeinen deutschen Wettbewerbes. Umgestaltung des Saales (K. W. Hiersemann, 1909), by Richard Graul, Friedrich Geselschap, Karl Gehrts, and Hugo Vogel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Themes from St. John's gospel in early Roman catacomb painting (Princeton University Press, 1905), by Clark Diven Lamberton (page images at HathiTrust)
Pageant of the Pacific (Pacific House, 1940), by Miguel Covarrubias and Pacific House (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Freski Dmitrovskago sobora vo Vladimire. (Petropolis, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mural painting (Sands, 1904), by F. Hamilton Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
Pitture a fresco del Camposanto di Pisa (Tipografia all'insegna di Dante, 1832), by Giuseppe Rossi and G. Paolo Lasinio (page images at HathiTrust)
Giotto and his works in Padua: being an explanatory notice of the series of wood-cuts executed for the Arundel society after the frescoes in the Arena chapel. (Printed for the Arundel society, 1854), by John Ruskin and England) Arundel Society (London (page images at HathiTrust)
L'evolution de la peinture religieuse en Bucovine et en Moldavie depuis les origines jusqu'au XIXe siècle (P. Geuthner, 1928), by I. D. Ștefănescu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Alte Denkmäler (Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, 1849), by Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (page images at HathiTrust)
Note sur les décors de théâtre dans l'antiquité romaine (L. Baschet, 1886), by Camille Saint-Saëns (page images at HathiTrust)
Viborg Domkirke: Joakim Skovgaards billeder, Domkirkens historie. La cathédrale de Viborg: les peintures de Joakim Skovgaard, histoire de la cathédrale (H. Hagerup, 1909), by Kunstforeningen i København, M. Mackeprang, Karl Madsen, and Denmark. Ministeriet for kirke- og undervisningsvæsenet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Antike Götter in der Spätrenaissance (B. G. Teubner, 1927), by Jacopo Zucchi, Hans Meier, and Fritz Saxl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mittelalterliche malerei in Spanien. Katalanischwand- und tafel-malereien. (E. Wasmuth a. g., 1925), by Gertrud Richert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
La Farnesina (Bergamo, 1927), by Federico Hermanin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The villa Madama, Rome; a reconstruction (J. Tiranti & company, 1928), by W. E. Greenwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The villa Madama, Rome (William Helburn, inc. [pref., 1928), by W. E. Greenwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Komposition der pompejanischen Wandgemälde, mit 38 Abbildungen im Text. (Weidmann, 1909), by Gerhart Rodenwaldt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Villa imperiale in Pesaro; Studien zur kunstgeschichte der italienischen Renaissancevilla und ihrer Innendekoration (Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1908), by Bernhard Patzak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Boston public library (Association publications, 1921), by Boston public library employees benefit association and Frank Herbert Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
Alt-Kutscha; archäologische und religionsgeschichtliche forschungen an tempera-gemälden aus Buddhistischen höhlen der ersten acht jahrhunderte nach Christi geburt (O. Elsner verlagsgesellschaft m.b.h., 1920), by Albert Grünwedel and Preussische Turfan-Expeditionen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An encyclopedia of colour decoration from the earliest times to the middle of the XIXth century (E. Weyhe, 1928), by Helmuth Theodor Bossert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Examples of English mediæval foliage and coloured decoration, taken from buildings of the twelfth to the fifteenth century: with descriptive letterpress. (Osgood, 1875), by James Kellaway Colling (page images at HathiTrust)
La peinture décorative en France du XIe au XVIe siècle (Librairies-impr. réunies, 1891), by P. Gélis-Didot and H. Laffillée (page images at HathiTrust)
Colour decoration of architecture, treating on colour and decoration of the interiors and exteriors of buildings : with historical notices of the art and practice of colour decoration in Italy, France, Germany and England, for the use of decorators and students (Chapman and Hall, ltd., 1913), by James Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The practical book of decorative wall-treatments (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1926), by Nancy McClelland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Nekropolis; untersuchungen über gestalt und entwicklung der alexandrinischen grabanlagen und ihrer malereien. (Giesecke & Devrient, 1919), by Rudolf Pagenstecher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ancient Maya paintings of Bonampak Mexico. (Washington, 1955), by Carnegie Institution of Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
Spätmittelalterliche Wandgemälde im Konstanzer Münster; ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Malerei am Oberrhein, von dr. Josef Gramm; mit 20 Tafeln und 4 Abbildungen im Text. (J.H.E. Heitz, 1905), by Josef Gramm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Peintures murales et mosaïques de Délos, by Marcel Bulard and École française d'Athènes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die gotischen Wandmalereien in der Kaiser-pfalz zu Forchheim; ein Beitrag zur Ursprungsfrage der fränkischen Malerei (Verlag der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1912), by Hugo Kehrer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Das kasino Pius des Vierten. (K. W. Hiersmann, 1912), by Walter Friedlaender and Pope Pius IV (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Wand- und Deckenmalerei in der Schweiz (Heitz, 1906), by Konrad Escher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Architectural interiors (International textbook Co., 1931), by International Correspondence Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
Toschi's engravings from frescos by Correggio and Parmegiano (J.R. Osgood and company, 1876), by Paolo Toschi, Parmigianino, 1489?-1534 Correggio, and Harvard university. William Hayes Fogg art museum. Gray collection of engravings (page images at HathiTrust)
Fresco painting, its art and technique, with special reference to the buono and spirit fresco methods (Chapman and Hall, ltd., 1909), by James Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The art of fresco painting, as practised by the old Italian and Spanish masters, with a preliminary inquiry into the nature of the colours used in fresco painting, with observation and notes. (C. Gilpin, 1846), by Mary P. Merrifield (page images at HathiTrust)
The expert interior decorator; a manual of reference for the expert decorator and instruction for the beginner in the art of painting and decorating the walls of private residences, public buildings, churches, halls, lodge rooms, etc. (A. A. Kelly, 1917), by A. Ashmun Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
Die villa der mysterien in Pompei. (Richter & co., 1927), by Vittorio Macchioro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Piccolomini Library in the cathedral of Siena (G. Bentivaglio , 1924), by Piero Misciattelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The frescoes in the Sixtine chapel. (Dutton, 1901), by Evelyn March Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
Fresco-Gemälde in der Aula der Universität zu Bonn. (Universitäts-Buchdruckerei von C. Georgi, 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
Wandgemälde der Kirche St. Georg bei Räzüns (Chur : Kellenberger'sche Buchh. (J.M. Albin), 1880., 1880), by Dietrich Jecklin (page images at HathiTrust)
Papers of the Society of Painters in Tempera, vol. I. 1901-1907. (Printed for the Society by the Dolphin Press, 1928), by London Society of Mural Decorators and Painters in Tempera and Mary Sargant Florence (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mural or monumental decoration: its aims and methods. Comprising fresco, encaustic, water-glass, mosaic, oil painting. With an appendix. (Winsor and Newton, 1869), by William Cave Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
Papers of the Society of Mural Decorators & Painters in Tempera. Second volume, 1907-1924. (Printed for the Society by the Dolphin Press, 1925), by London Society of Mural Decorators and Painters in Tempera and John D. Batten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Masters of Campanian painting. (H. Bittner, 1952), by Mabel McAfee Gabriel (page images at HathiTrust)
Der dritte pompejanische Stil; ein Beitrag zu seiner Geschichte ... ([Buchdruckerei A. W. Schade], 1910), by Albert Ippel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Le più belle pareti di Pompei (Loescher, 1878), by Vittorio Steeger and Emil Presuhn (page images at HathiTrust)
Essai sur les fresques de Raphael au Vatican (Renouard, 1859), by F.-A. Gruyer (page images at HathiTrust)
Pitture murali a fresco e suppellettili etrusche in bronzo e in terra cotta scoperte in una necropoli presso Orvieto nel 1863 da Domenico Golini; illustrazione congiunta a XVIII tavole in rame (Coi tipi di M. Cellini, 1865), by Giovanni Carlo Conestabile della Staffa (page images at HathiTrust)
The frescoes of the new pump-room at Baden (Marx, 1876), by Jakob Goetzenberger, Eduard Wagner, and Otto Moser (page images at HathiTrust)
Piero della Francesca (B. Schwabe & co., 1920), by della Francesca Piero and Hans Graber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The art of colour decoration; being an explanation of the purposes to be kept in view and the means of attaining them (B. T. Batsford;, 1913), by John Dibblee Crace (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Pompeji, die neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874 bis 1881 (T.O. Weigel, 1882), by Emil Presuhn (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Restauration alter und schadhaft gewordener Gemälde in ihrem ganzen Umgange; nebst einer Anleitung zur Frescomalerei. (B.F. Voigt, 1846), by J. C. G. Hampel (page images at HathiTrust)
Die malerei der alten in ihrer anwendung und technik, inbesondere als decorationsmalerei (Im verlage der Haschen hofbuchhandlung, 1836), by Rudolf Wiegmann (page images at HathiTrust)
La peinture décorative (J. Rouam, 1892), by L. Roger-Milès (page images at HathiTrust)
The brochure of the Mural painters, a national society founded 1895 ... (The Society, 1916), by Mural painters (page images at HathiTrust)
Alte denkmäler erklärt (Dieterichsche buchhandlung, 1849), by Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (page images at HathiTrust)
Italian wall decorations of the 15th and 16th centuries. A handbook to the models, illustrating interiors of Italian buildings, in the Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington. (Chapman & Hall, limited, 1901), by Victoria and Albert Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Lettres d'un antiquaire a un artiste sur l'emploi de la peinture historique murale dans la décoration des temples et des autres édifices publics ou particuliers chez les Grecs et les Romains : ouvrage pouvant servir de suite et de supplément a tous ceux qui traitent de l'histoire de l'art dans l'antiquite (Heideloff et Campe, 1835), by M. Letronne (page images at HathiTrust)
The frescoes in the Sixtine [sic] chapel (J. Murray, 1915), by Evelyn March Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
Über die Maltechnik der Alten, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der römisch-pompejanischen Wandmalerei, nebst einer Anleitung zur mikroskopischen Untersuchung der Kunstwerke (G. Reimer, 1910), by E. Raehlmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kompositionsgesetze der Franzlegende in der Oberkirche zv Assisi (Kommissions-verlag von K. W. Hiersemann, 1918), by August Schmarsow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Versuch einer Entwicklungsgeschichte der Deckenmalerei in Italien vom 15. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. (J.H.E. Heitz, 1910), by Sylva Scheglmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Thoughts on the relative value of fresco and oil painting, as applied to the architectural decorations of the House of Parliament; read at the Friday evening meeting at the Royal institution ... March 4, 1842. (Hooper, 1842), by Benjamin Robert Haydon (page images at HathiTrust)
Mural painting for specific place: "Home economics". ([Ithaca, N.Y.], 1937), by Virginia True (page images at HathiTrust)
The Boston public library: a handbook to the library building, its mural decorations and its collections; 39 illustrations. (Association publications, 1939), by Boston Public Library Employees Benefit Association (page images at HathiTrust)
Saint Christopher in English mediaeval wallpainting by H. C. Whaite, with forty-three illustrations in collotype. (E. Benn limited, 1929), by Henry Clarence Whaite (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Canvas adhesives ([New York, 1939), by Raphael Doktor and N.Y.) Federal Art Project (New York (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Le dessinateur, pour les fabriques d'etoffes d'or, d'argent et de soie : avec la traduction de six tables raisonnées, tirées de l'Abecedario pittorico, imprimé à Naples en 1733 (Chez Sébastien Jorry, rue & vis-à-vis la Comédie françoise, Bauche, Quai des Augustins, Brocas, rue S. Jacques, au Chef S. Jean, 1765), by Antoine Nicolas. Joubert de l'Hiberderie, Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, Jean Brocas, Jean Baptiste Claude Bauche, and Sébastien Jorry (page images at HathiTrust)
Appendice aux Lettres d'un antiquare à un artiste sur l'emploi della peinture historique murale dans la décoration des temples et des autres édifices publics ou particulière chez les Grecs et les Romains. (Heideloff, 1837), by M. Letronne (page images at HathiTrust)
Examples of English mediaeval foliage and coloured decoration from buildings of the XIIth to the XVth centuries : a series of seventy-six measured drawings with descriptive letterpress (Published by the author, 1874), by James Kellaway Colling (page images at HathiTrust)
A list of buildings in Great Britain and Ireland having mural and other painted decorations (Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode for H. M. Stationery off., 1883), by South Kensington Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
Fresco painting; modern methods and techniques for painting in fresco and secco. (American Artists Group, 1947), by Olle Nordmark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Das goldene Haus des Nero : neue Funde und Forschungen (Georg Reimer, 1913), by Fritz Weege and Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Catalogue des fresques de Boscoreale, dont la vente publique aura lieu à Paris dans les galeries Durand-Ruel ... le ... 8 juin 1903 ... Commissaire-priseur. me Maurice Delestre ... experts, C. et E. Canessa. (Protat frères, imprimeurs, 1903), by Arthur Sambon and Durand-Ruel et fils (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Décoration égyptienne. Plafonds et frises végétales du nouvel empire thébain (1400 à 1000 avant J.-C.) (Librairie centrale d'art et d'architecture, 1911), by Gustave Jéquier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The book of art : cartoons, frescoes, sculpture, and decorative art (J. How, 1846), by Frederick Knight Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
My anti-drug mural guidebook : five steps to planning an anti-drug community mural (National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, 2002), by United States Office of National Drug Control Policy and National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Die malerei der alten in ihrer anwendung und technik, insbesondere als decorations-malerei (Hahn, 1836), by Rudolf Wiegmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Die erhalten antiken wandmalereien in technischer beziehung untersucht und beurtheilt (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1869), by Otto Philipp Donner-von Richter and Wolfgang Helbig (page images at HathiTrust)
Fresco and encaustic painting. (Chapman & Hall, 1843), by William B. Sarsfield Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
Lettres d'antiquaire à un artiste sur l'emploi décoration des temples et des autres édifices publics ou particuliers chez les Grecs et les Romains. Ouvrage pouvant servir de suite et de supplément à tous ceux qui traitent de l'histoire de l'art dans l'antiquité. (J. Labitte, etc., 1840), by M. Letronne (page images at HathiTrust)
Drei denkmäler mittelalterlicher malerei aus den obersächsischen landen, nebst einem anhang ... Mit 11 lithographirten tafeln und 66 holzschnitten ... (O. Deistung, 1860), by Friedrich Klopfleisch (page images at HathiTrust)
De la décoration de églises de campagne par la peinture murale (chez M. Bouserez, etc., etc., 1860), by Louis Charles Marie de Bodin Galembert and J.-J. Bourassé (page images at HathiTrust)
The art of the old masters (Harper, 1899), by Cennino Cennini (page images at HathiTrust)
Piero della Francesco; achtundsechzig Tafeln mit einführendem Text (B. Schwabe, 1922), by della Francesca Piero and Hans Graber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ragionamenti del signor Giorgio Vasari sopra le invenzioni da lui dipinte in Firenze nel Palazzo vecchio con d. Francesco Medici allora principe di Firenze. (N. Capurro, 1823), by Giorgio Vasari (page images at HathiTrust)
Giovanni Sanzio and his fresco at Cagli. (Printed for the Arundel society, 1859), by Austen Henry Layard (page images at HathiTrust)
The art of colour decoration : being an explanation of the purposes to be kept in view and the means of attaining them (B.T. VBatsford, 1912), by John Dibblee Crace (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The frescoes in the Sixtine chapel (E. P. Dutton & co., 1901), by Evelyn March Phillips (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Boston public library; a handbook to the library building, its mural decorations and its collections. (Association publications, 1921), by Boston Public Library Employees Benefit Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The art of mural decoration (Winsor & Newton, 1874), by T. G. Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
The art of mural decoration (Winsor & Newton, 1880), by T. G. Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
Freskovai︠a︡ rospisʹ Khrama Uspenīi︠a︡ Bogorodit︠s︡y v Svīi︠a︡zhskom myzhskom Bogorodit︠s︡kom monastyri︠e︡. (Moskva, 1906), by D. V. Ainalov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die figurale Wandmalerei : Ihre Gesetze und Arten (Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1921), by Joseph Popp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A pintura a fresco em Portugal nos séculos xv e xvi (ensaio); memória apresentada ao 1.o Congresso de historia de arte de Paris. (Imprensa Libanio da Silva, 1921), by Vergílio Correia and Congrès d'histoire de l'art (1921 : Paris) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
I dipinti di Bernardino Luini alla Villa Rabia; La pelucca. ([Tip. U. Allegretti], 1911), by L. Beltrami and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Le pitture murali campane scoverte negli anni 1867-79 (Giannini, 1879), by Antonio Sogliano and Wolfgang Helbig (page images at HathiTrust)
Ragionamenti del Sig. cavaliere Giorgio Vasari, pittore et architetto aretino, sopra le inuentioni da lui dipinte in Firenze nel palazzo di Loro Altezze Serenissime. (F. Giunti, 1588), by Giorgio Vasari and Giorgio Vasari (page images at HathiTrust)
Opuscoli di Agostino Gerli. (Dalla Stamperia reale, 1785), by Agostino Gerli, Girolamo Mantelli, Domenico Muzzi, and Giuseppe Patrini (page images at HathiTrust)
Misteriose pittvre del Palazzo Moroni (Per Marc'Antonio Rossi, 1655), by Donato Calvi, Marc'Antonio Rossi, Gian Giacomo Barbelli, and Giovanni Battista Azzola (page images at HathiTrust)
Sanctorum martyrum, qui pro Christo catholicaeque fidei veritate asserenda (Ex officina Bartholomæi Grassi, 1584), by approximately 1520-approximately 1596 Pomarancio and Giovanni Battista Cavalieri (page images at HathiTrust)
The frescoes in the Sixtine chapel (J. Murray, 1907), by Evelyn March Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Descrizione dell' opera a fresco eseguita nel 1795 nel tempio di S. Maria presso S. Celso in Milano dal pittore Andrea Appiani. (Presso Pirotta e Maspero, 1803), by Andrea Appiani (page images at HathiTrust)
Lettres d'un antiquaire a un artiste : sur l'emploi de la peinture historique murale dans la décoration des temples et des autres édifices publics ou particuliers chez les Grecs et les Romains : ouvrage pouvant servir de suite et de supplément à tous ceux qui traitent de l'histoire de l'art dans l'antiquité (J. Labitte, H. Labitte, 1840), by M. Letronne (page images at HathiTrust)
Examples of English mediaeval foliage and coloured decoration, taken from buildings of the twelfth to the fifteenth century: with descriptive letterpress. (The author [etc.], 1874), by James Kellaway Colling (page images at HathiTrust)
Church's Alabastine and how to use it to the best advantage (Alabastine Co., 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
Notice sur le jugement dernier, exposé au cabinet paroissial (s.n.], 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
Die spätromanischen Wandmalereien im Hessenhof zu Schmalkalden : Nach Originalaufnahmen veröffentlicht und beschrieben und mit Unterstützung des Königlich Preussischen Ministeriums der geistlichen Unterrichts- und Medizinal-angelegenheiten (E.A. Seemann, 1896), by Otto Gerland (page images at HathiTrust)
T︠S︡erkovʹ vo imi︠a︡ svi︠a︡tago i slavnago proroka Bozhīi︠a︡ Ilīi v g. I︠A︡roslavli︠e︡. (Tipo-lit. G.A. Petrazhit︠s︡kago, 1906), by I. A. Vakhrami︠e︡ev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Figure painting applied to architecture ... Address before the architectural league, November 5, 1888. ([New York, 1888), by Frederic Crowninshield (page images at HathiTrust)
Medeltida kalkmålningar i Skånes kyrkor. (Berlingska boktryckeriet, 1904), by Otto Rydbeck and Lunds universitet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Tituli und die Kirchliche Wandmalerei im Abendlande, vom v. bis zum XI. Jahrhundert. (Seemann, 1892), by Ernst Steinmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Polygnots Gemälde in der Lesche der Knidier in Delphi. (P. Neff, 1895), by Paul Weizsäcker (page images at HathiTrust)
Die mittelalterlichen wandgemälde in der italienischen Schweiz. (Orell Füssli & co., 1881), by Johann Rudolf Rahn (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Mineral-Malerei : Neues Verfahren zur Herstellung witterungsbeständiger Wandgemälde : technisch-wissenschaftliche Anleitung (A. Hartleben's Verlag, 1881), by Adolf Wilhelm Keim (page images at HathiTrust)
A list of buildings in Great Britain and Ireland having mural and other painted decorations, of dates prior to the latter part of the sixteenth century, with historical introduction and alphabetical index of subjects (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1883), by Charles Edward Keyser (page images at HathiTrust)
Decoratori genovesi ; ventisei riproduzioni, con testo e catalogo a cura. ([Società editrice della Biblioteca d'arte illustrata], 1921), by Orlando Grosso (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Outlines of the history of design in mural painting principally during the Christian era. With an introduction on the art of the pre-Christian period. (J. Parker and co., 1902), by Nat Hubert John Westlake (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Boston public library; a handbook to the library building, its mural decorations and its collections. (Association publications, 1922), by Boston Public Library Employees Benefit Association and Frank Herbert Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
Les pintvres mvrals catalanes ... ([Barcelona, 1909), by Institut d'Estudis Catalans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Peintures antiques inédites, précédées de recherches sur l'emploi de la peinture dans la décoration des édifices sacrés et publics, chez les Grecs et chez les Romains; faisant suite aux Monuments inédits (Imprimerie royale, 1836), by Raoul- Rochette (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Wand und ihre künstlerische Behandlung. (Bard, Marquardt, 1904), by Oskar Bie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Il cartone di Raffaello Sanzio per l'affresco della "Scuola d'Atene" nella Camera della segnatura in Vaticano; un frammento del cartone per la "Battaglia di Costantino." (Alfieri & Lacroix, 1920), by L. Beltrami and Biblioteca ambrosiana (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Abbildungen der Gemälde und Alterthümer : welche seit 1738, sowohl in der verschütteten Stadt Herkulanum, als auch in den umliegenden Gegenden an das Licht gebracht worden (Im Verlag bei Christoph Friedrich Bürglens Buch- und Kunsthandlung, 1793), by Georg Christoph Kilian, Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt, and Christoph Gottlieb von Murr (page images at HathiTrust)
L'évolution de la peinture religieuse en Bucovine et en Moldavie, depuis les origines jusqu'au XIXe siècl; nouvelles recherches, étude iconographique (P. Geuthner, 1929), by I. D. Ștefănescu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Poems of John Ruskin (Belford, Clarke ;, 1875), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
Der bildercyklus des Luxemburger stammbaumes aus Karlstein. (J.G. Calve, 1897), by Josef Neuwirth (page images at HathiTrust)
A treatise on fresco, encaustic, and tempera painting : being the substance of lectures delivered at the Society of British Artists, and at the School of Design, Leicester Square, in the years 1838-39-40 (Published by the author, 78, Newman Street, 1842), by Eugenio H. Latilla (page images at HathiTrust)
Vestigia delle terme di Tito e loro interne pittvre (Presso Ludovico Mirri ..., 1776), by Marco Carloni, Giuseppe Carletti, Ludovico Mirri, Francesco Smugliewicz, and Vikentiĭ Frant︠s︡evich Brenna (page images at HathiTrust)
Exhibition book of art ... cartoons, frescoes, sculpture and decorative art ... (London, 1852), by Frederick Knight Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Wandgemälde in der Burgkapelle zu Zwingenberg a. N. (Darmstadt, 1893), by Franz Xaver Kraus, A. von Oechellhaeuser, K. Fr Gutmann, and L. Leutz (page images at HathiTrust)
Fourteenth century mural painting and its symbolism modernly interpreted in Saint Peter's church at Springfield, Massachusetts. (Printed by Pond-Ekberg company, 1930), by George Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
I cieli e la loro influenza negli affreschi del Salone in Padova (Tip. Seminario, 1924), by Antonio Barzon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Architectural interiors (International Textbook Company, 1952), by International Correspondence Schools (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Practical house decoration : a guide to the art of ornamental painting, the arrangement of colours in apartments and the principles of decorative design : with some remarks upon the nature and properties of pigments (Crosby Lockwood, 1886), by James William Facey (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Farbige Malerbuch : Ergænzung zu Eyth und Meyers Malerbuch (E.A. Seemann, 1901), by Franz Sales Meyer and Karl Eyth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
S. Marco, convento dei Padri predicatori in Firenze (Presso la Società artistica, 1853), by Vincenzo Fortunato Marchese (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Malereien der Katakomben Roms (Herder, 1903), by Josef Wilpert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Pompei, casa dei Vetti; 15 tavole con 23 disegni riprodotti dalla cromo-litografia de Luca & Bardelloni ... (Negenborn & Bokwinkel, 1800), by G. Discanno (page images at HathiTrust)
United States Capitol (U.S. Senate, 1996), by United States Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
Aufnahmen mittelalterlicher Wand- und Deckenmalereien in Deutschland (E. Wasmuth, 1897), by Richard Borrmann, Otto Vorländer, and H. Kolb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Twenty years of the Arundel Society 1849 to 1868 (London : Printed and published for the author by Nichols and Sons, 25, Parliament Street, Westminster, and sold at the Arundel Rooms, 24, Old Bond Street, W., 1869., 1869), by Frederic W. Maynard, J.B. Nichols and Sons, and Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art (page images at HathiTrust)
Il claustro di S. Michele in Bosco di Bologna : dipinto dal famoso Lodovico Carracci, e da altri eccellenti maestri uscita dalla sua scola (Per gli eredi d'Antonio Pisarri, 1694), by Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Marcantonio Fabbri, Giacomo-Maria Giovannini, Lodovico Carracci, and Eredi del Pisarri (page images at HathiTrust)
Väggmåleri. (A. Bonnier, 1920), by Georg Pauli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mediaeval wall paintings (London : Talbot & Co., [1920?], in the 1920s), by J. Charles Wall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The villa of the mysteries in Pompei (Naples : Richter, [between 1920 and 1929?], 1929), by Vittorio Macchioro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Raccolta di cinquantadue quadretti dipinti a fresco da Raffaelle (Presso Nicola de Antoni e Ignazio Pavon, 1820), by Antonio Banzo (page images at HathiTrust)
...The Piccolomini library in the cathedral of Siena. (Libreria editrice sense, 1926), by Piero Misciatelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Freskomalerei der Dimitrij Kathedrale in Wladimir (Petropolis Verlag, 1925), by Igorʹ Ėmmanuilovich Grabarʹ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
La pittvra egiziana. (Fratelli Treves, 1929), by Giulio Farina (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Themes from St. John's gospel in early Roman catacomb painting ... ([Princeton] : Princeton university press, [1905?], 1905), by Clark Diven Lamberton and Alumni Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
Wall-paper decoration: a practical guide to the selection, use and hanging of wall-paper and other portable decorations (Trade Papers Publishing Co., 1907), by Arthur Seymour Jennings (page images at HathiTrust)
Ornamente der neuzeit, plafond- und wanddecorationen für den praktischen gebrauch ... (C. Lange, 1882), by Carl Lange (page images at HathiTrust)
Descriptive notice of the drawings and publications of the Arundel society : from 1869 to 1873 inclusive; (being a continuation of "Twenty years of the Arundel society.") Illustrated by photographs of all the publications, arranged in the order of their issue (For the author by Nichols and sons, 1873), by Frederic W Maynard and Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art (page images at HathiTrust)
Descriptive notice of the drawings and publications of the Arundel society, from 1849 to 1868 inclusive; illustrated by photographs of all the publications, arranged in the order of their issue. (For the author by Nichols and sons, 1869), by Frederick W. Maynard and London Arundel society (page images at HathiTrust)
Decorazione murale, pietre lavorate, mosaico, pavimento artistico. (Ceschina, 1928), by Guido Marangoni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Les fresques byzantines de Spas-Nereditsa ... (J.B. Polonski, 1928), by Vladimir Konstantinovich Miasoédov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mural painting in America; the Scammon lectures, delivered before the Art Institute of Chicago, March, 1912, and since greatly enlarged (C. Scribner's Sons, 1923), by Edwin Howland Blashfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Coloured ceramics from Ashur, and earlier ancient Assyrian wall-paintings (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1925), by Walter Andrae and Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Oriental fore-runners fo Byzantine painting; first-century wall paintings from the fortress of Dura on the middle Euphrates. (Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago press, [1924], 1924), by James Henry Breasted (page images at HathiTrust)
Mural painting in America : the Scammon lectures delivered before the Art Institute of Chicago, March, 1912, and since greatly enlarged (Scribner, 1928), by Edwin Howland Blashfield (page images at HathiTrust)
The murals in the National Archives : Barry Faulkner, artist. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1937), by National Archives (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
L'Art, décoratif aux salons de 1912. Sociéte des artistes francais, Sociéte nationale des beaux-arts. Peintures décoratives. (A. Guérinet, 1913), by E. Le Deley, Société nationale des beaux-arts (France), and Société des artistes français (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Colour Decoration of Architecture, by James Ward (Gutenberg ebook)
Fresco Painting, by James Ward (Gutenberg ebook)

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