ISBN10: 048620054X, ISBN13: 9780486200545, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc. Feb 2000] Softcover Neuware - 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 color 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, coloring 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 ordinary parts of ...
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New York, NY Dover Publications 1954 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Dover Art Instruction.

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[Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1954]

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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[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1954]

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[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1954]

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[Dunfermline, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1954]

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[Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1954]

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[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1954]

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[Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1954]

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[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1954]

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

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[Miami, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1954]

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[Sierra Vista, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1954]

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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[Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1954]

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[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1954]

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