The craftsman's handbook : the Italian "Il libro dell'arte" /
Cennini, Cennino, active 15th century.
The craftsman's handbook : the Italian "Il libro dell'arte" / - New York : Dover, ©1960. - xxvii, 142 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm - Dover art instruction and reference books .
"An unabridged and unaltered republication of the Thompson translation originally published by Yale University Press in 1933"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is D. V. Thompson's definitive English translation of " II Libro dell'Arte, " an intriguing guide to methods of painting written in 15th century Florence. Embodying the secrets and technique of the great masters, it served as an art student's introduction to the ways of his craft. Anyone who has every looked at a medieval painting and marveled at a brilliance of color and quality of surface that have endured 500 years, should find this fascinating reading. It describes such lost arts as gilding stone, making mosaics of crushed eggshell, fashioning saint's 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 the reader might be tempted to experiment with the methods given here, for his own amusement and curiosity. .... [cont.]
English translation
048620054X 9780486200545
54003194
Cennini, Cennino 1360-1440 Libro dell'arte
Painting--Early works to 1800.
Painting--Technique.
Peinture--Ouvrages avant 1800.
Peinture--Technique.
Painting.
Painting--Technique.
Farbenlehre
Malerei
Maltechnik
Schilderkunst.
Techniek.
Quelle.
Early works.
Quelle.
ND1130 / .C3822 1960
751
The craftsman's handbook : the Italian "Il libro dell'arte" / - New York : Dover, ©1960. - xxvii, 142 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm - Dover art instruction and reference books .
"An unabridged and unaltered republication of the Thompson translation originally published by Yale University Press in 1933"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is D. V. Thompson's definitive English translation of " II Libro dell'Arte, " an intriguing guide to methods of painting written in 15th century Florence. Embodying the secrets and technique of the great masters, it served as an art student's introduction to the ways of his craft. Anyone who has every looked at a medieval painting and marveled at a brilliance of color and quality of surface that have endured 500 years, should find this fascinating reading. It describes such lost arts as gilding stone, making mosaics of crushed eggshell, fashioning saint's 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 the reader might be tempted to experiment with the methods given here, for his own amusement and curiosity. .... [cont.]
English translation
048620054X 9780486200545
54003194
Cennini, Cennino 1360-1440 Libro dell'arte
Painting--Early works to 1800.
Painting--Technique.
Peinture--Ouvrages avant 1800.
Peinture--Technique.
Painting.
Painting--Technique.
Farbenlehre
Malerei
Maltechnik
Schilderkunst.
Techniek.
Quelle.
Early works.
Quelle.
ND1130 / .C3822 1960
751
