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The craftsman's handbook : the Italian "Il libro dell'arte" /

By:

Cennini, Cennino, active 15th century

Contributor(s):

Thompson, Daniel V. (Daniel Varney), 1902-1980

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

048620054X
9780486200545

Uniform titles:

Libro dell'arte. English

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

751 20

LOC classification:

ND1130 .C3822 1960

Summary: 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.]

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Carleton University, AVRC	Open-stacks, Pocketbooks	ND1130 .C3822 1960 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16055001022

"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.

English translation

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