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ISBN10: 048620054X, ISBN13: 9780486200545, [publisher: Dover Publications] Softcover signs of little wear on the cover.
[Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1954]

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ISBN10: 048620054X, ISBN13: 9780486200545, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc.] New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
[Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1954]

Dover Publications, Date: 1954-06-01. 2nd Edition. paperback. Used:Good. Dover Publications ISBN 048620054X 9780486200545 [US]

ISBN10: 048620054X, ISBN13: 9780486200545, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc.] KlappentextFifteenth-century handbook, written by a working artist of the day, reveals techniques of the masters in drawing, oil painting, frescoes, panel painting, gilding, casting, more. Direct link to artists of Middle Ages.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 1954]
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ISBN10: 048620054X, ISBN13: 9780486200545, [publisher: Dover Publications] Softcover
[Miami, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1954]

New York Dover Publications Inc 1954 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.

New York, NY Dover Publications 1954 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Dover Art Instruction.

ISBN10: 048620054X, ISBN13: 9780486200545, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc., New York] Softcover Paperback. This is D. V. Thompson's definitive English translation of Il Libro dell'Arte, an intriguing guide to methods of painting, written in fifteenth-century Florence. Embodying the secrets and techniques of the great masters, it served as an art student's introduction to the ways of his craft.Anyone who has ever looked at a medieval painting and marveled at the brilliance of colour and quality of surface that have endured for 500 years should find this fascinating reading. It describes such lost arts as gilding stone, making mosaics of crushed eggshell, fashioning saints' diadems, colouring parchment, making goat glue, and regulating your life in the interests of decorum - which meant shunning women, the greatest cause of unsteady hands in artists. You are told how to make green drapery, black for monks' robes, trees and plants, oils, beards in fresco, and the proper proportions of a man's body. (""I will not tell you about the irrational animals because you will never discover any system of proportion in them."") So practical are the details that readers might be tempted to experiment with the methods given here for their own amusement and curiosity.Today artists are no longer interested in specific directions on keeping miniver tails from becoming moth-eaten. The Craftsman's Handbook, in which these are ...
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ISBN10: 048620054X, ISBN13: 9780486200545, [publisher: Dover Publications] Softcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.44
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1954]

Dover Publications, Date: 1954-06-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Dover Publications ISBN 048620054X 9780486200545 [US]