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Citation Information
by iconoclasts. It would be well that these facts should be understood by well-
meaning enthusiasts who, mistakenly, advocate varnishing or otherwise treating
ancient mural paintings, whether in fresco or tempera, still in situ, to `preserve' them.
It cannot be too strongly insisted, that not only is such treatment unnecessary but
that, as has been demonstrated in the past, instead of preserving, it only hastens
destruction. With the arrest of such active causes of destruction as those above
mentioned, the paintings will endure by their own vitality, and need no doctoring.
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