Ancient architecture painting grade and classification

In ancient ancient building tempera paint mainly in mineral-based pigments, it soft and stable color, pleasing to the eye, the color is not strong and durability to the existing old buildings, for example, the Dunhuang murals and Shanxi Jinci Lady Chapel of the Northern Song Dynasty painting saved , which has seen thousands of years of wind and rain, still kept in the same style, since the foreign produced chemical color pigments into the country. Because these chemical paints bright colors, easy to extract and cheap. But these chemicals, pigments, mineral pigments pleasing neither the traditional color, no mineral pigments millennium enduring endurance, its shelf life is up to around ten years. Ancient architecture protection house painting had only raw wood against moisture, corrosion, decay, and later developed a more beautiful pattern, has a strong decorative. In fact ancient architecture painting also have different classification, there are hierarchy. And Xi is the highest level of tempera painting. Features are: in the middle of the screen is a combination of different dragon or phoenix painting pattern formed, using Lek powder laced with gold, to use the magnificent, very spectacular. Revolving painting. Revolving painting is rank with respect to the comparative times of painting, a simple screen scroll Flap is used bindweed, sometimes painted with dragon and phoenix, both sides can be attached to the powder, the powder may not be posted, generally used for minor palace or temples. Soviet-style painting. Soviet-style painting is the lowest level, the screen to landscape, people stories, insects, fish, etc. mainly on both sides of the box with the title number or brackets up being architects who called burden. Soviet-style painting is from the south of the burden of painting evolved.