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A Treatise on Painting,
By Cennino Cennini, Giuseppe Tambroni, Mary Philadelphia Merrifield, Translated by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield, Published by Lumley, 1844
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A Treatise on Painting,
By Leonardo Da Vinci, John Francis Rigaud, Published by J.B. Nichols and Son 1835
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A Theory of Pure Design; Harmony, Balance, Rhythm,
by Denman Waldo Ross, 1907
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Art Recreations;
being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting, water-color painting, crayon drawing and painting, painting on ground glass, Grecian painting, antique painting, oriental painting, sign painting, theorem painting, ferneries, moss work, papier mache, cone work, feather flowers, potichomanie, leather work, hair work, taxidermy, gilding and bronzing, plaster work, decalcomanie, wax work, shell work, magic lantern, paper flowers, imitation of pearl, the aquqrium, sealing-wax painting, panorama painting, coloring photographs, enamel painting, etc.
by Henry Day, 1873
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A Primer for the Materials, Methods and Techniques of Conservation,
From the North Corolina Museum of Art
The history of painting has included the use of many different materials. The basic definition of a painting: a pigment mixed in a medium and applied to a support. An easel painting typically has at least four basic layers: support, ground, paint, and varnish.
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Cyclopedia of Painting : containing useful and valuable information on the following subjects : adulteration of paint, blistering of paint, brushes, calcimining, carriage painting, china painting, colors, color harmony, color mixing, color testing, exterior painting, gilding, graining, house painting, marbling, mildew, oils and driers, oil painting on glass, painting a bath tub, painting in distemper, paperhanger's tools, paperhanging, pigments, plain oil painting, primary colors, priming, scenic painting, sign painting, stains, staining, stencilling, turpentine, varnishes, varnishing, water color painting, when not to paint, practical points on painting, useful information ,
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George D. Armstrong
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Handbook of Painting,
In the master-works of this period we find the most elevated subjects, represented in the noblest form, with a depth of feeling never since equalled. It was only for a short period that Art maintained this high degree of perfection.
by Franz Kugler, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, George Scharf, Francis Turner Palgrave, 1855
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A Hand-book of the History of Painting: The Italian schools of paintings,
By Franz Kugler, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, Sir Edmund Head
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Materials for Permanent Painting,
a manual for manufacturers, art dealers, artists and collectors
By Maximilian Toch 1911
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The Materials of the Painter's Craft in Europe and Egypt :
from earliest times to the end of the XVIIth century, with some account of their preparation and use,
by A. P. Laurie, 1910
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Methods And Materials Of Painting Of The Great Schools And Masters Vol.2,
by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, Lady Eastlake, Franz Kugler
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Notes on the Science of Picture-Making,
THERE is a common foundation from which all the arts rise, and that is the need of self-expression on the part of the artist...
by C. J. Holmes, 1920
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The Painter's Methods & Materials :
The handling of pigments in oil, tempera, water-colour & in mural painting, the preparation of grounds & canvas, & the prevention of discolouration, together with the theories of light & colour applied to the making of pictures,
by A. P. Laurie, 1926
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The Painters' Encyclopaedia,
containing definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting,
By Franklin B. Gardner, Published by M.T. Richardson, 1887
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Painting a Portrait,
by De Laszlo, 1934
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The Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher's Companion,
Containing rules and regulations in everything relating to the arts of painting, gilding, varnishing, glass-staining. Graining, marbling. Sign-writing, gilding on glass, and coach painting and varnishing; Tests for the detection of adulteration in oils, colors, etc. And a Statement of the diseases to which painters are particularly liable, with the simplest and best remedies.
by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1886
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Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures,
by Henry Rankin Poore, 1903
THIS volume is addressed to three classes of readers ; to the layman, to the amateur photographer, and to the professional artist
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The Secret of the Old Masters,
by Albert Abendschein, 1909
I had begun to form a determination to discover the technical principles, methods, and material that enabled the Old Masters to produce their art work...
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The Theory and Practice of Color,
by Bonnie E Snow, Hugo B. Froehlich, 1920
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Young Artist's Assistant;
or, Elements of the fine arts, containing the principles of drawing, painting in general, crayon painting, oil painting, portrait painting, miniature painting, designing, colouring, engraving...,
by William Enfield, 1822
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The Graphic Arts:
A treatise on the varieties of drawing, painting, and engraving in comparison with each other and with nature.
By Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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A Primer of Art
By John Collier
This little work is addressed to all those who are endeavouring to learn the Arts of Design, in the hope that it may remove some practical difficulties from their path...
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Handbook of Painting:
the German, Flemish and Dutch Schools : based on the handbook of Kuglee. In to parts,
—part 1.
By Franz Kugler, Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Joseph Archer Crowe
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Handbook of Painting.
The German, Flemish, and Dutch schools. Based on the Handbook of Kuglee. Enlarged and for the Most Part Re-written by D. Waagen, Director of the Royal Gallery of Pictures, Berlin. with Iillustrations .InTwo Parts.
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The Artist's Way of Working
in the various handicrafts and arts of design, Vol 1
By Russell Sturgis
The Artist's Way of Working
in the Various Handicrafts and Arts of Design , Vol 2
By Russell Sturgis
Dedicated with admiration and undying gratitude to the many artists and skilled artisans to the sculptors and carvers, painters and draughtsmen, silversmiths and blacksmiths, potters and glassmakers, masons and joiners, printers and engravers, architects and decorative designers, who during forty years have been my teachers in fine art...
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Students' Text-Book of Color:
or Modern chromatics, with Applications to Art and Industry.
By Ogden Nicholas Rood
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Painting Materials - A Short Encyclopaedia:
(avalible in Text files only)
By Rutherford J. Gettens and George L. Stout,
1942
Table of contents:
Introduction ...
Preface Medium,...
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Painting Popularly Explained: Including Fresco, Tempera, Encaustic, Miniature, Oil, Mosaic, Water-Colour, Missal, Painting on Pottery, Porcelain, Enamel, Glass, etc.
By Thomas John Gullick, John Timbs
...although painting has not the power of giving actual relief like sculpture, it yet can, by means of imitating the effects of form, light, and shadow on the eye, sufficiently secure the impression of relief, so that no want is suggested; and, in the addition of colour, it has the means of imitating a very beautiful class of facts in nature, beyond the scope of sculpture...
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Art in Transit: Handbook for Packing and Transporting Paintings
By Richard, M., Mecklenburg, Marion F. and Merrill, Ross, 1991
National Gallery of Art
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Technical Art History: Painters' supports and studio practices of Rembrandt, Dou and Vermeer
By Jørgen Wadum, 2009
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The Theory of Color in its Relation to Art and Art-industry
By Wilhelm von Bezold, 1876
...On the palette we do not mix colors at all, but only pigments; to mix colors we must employ means of a very different nature. Before, however, describing these methods, it may be well to call to mind a few instances in ordinary life, in which we have to deal, not with the mixture of pigments, but with that of colors...
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Portrait and Figure Painting
By Frank Fowler
THE fact that the representation of the human figure is generally regarded as the most advanced step in the painter's art seems to invest it with unusual fascination for the beginner. Certainly the number of persons who deliberately choose a course of training that prepares them for painting from life is constantly increasing...
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Handbook of Pictorial Art
Richard St. John Tyrwhitt, 1875
Though Venice contains the greatest examples of Colour in the world, Florence is the great school of Drawing. Solid study of accurate form must come first, because it can be taught to any person : and when that is learnt may come the delight and excitement of colour ; power in which is incommunicable, and which, taken by itself, would be mere intoxication...
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De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting
by Charles A. Du Fresnoy, 1695
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The Theory and Practice of Color
By Bonnie E. Snow, Hugo B. Froehlich, 1920
UP to the present time, the study of Color has been approached from three different angles:the angle of the physicist,the angle of the chemist and the angle of the painter or artist. The physicist has demonstrated that the sun is the source of all Color, and has unlocked for us the secrets of the Solar Spectrum. The chemist has found in certain clays, in plant and animal life and in bi-products of coal,various symbols and substitutes for Color which he calls pigment, and which he combines in wonderful ways to make our dyes, paints and inks. The artist-painter has made use of the chemist's formulae in the instrument which he uses to portray his interpretation of nature, his marvelous flights of imagination and the depth of his insight into the human heart...
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A Treatise on the Art of Painting,
in all its branches; accompanied by seventy engraved plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters, Volume 1
by Gérard de Lairesse, 1817
...The figures being brought thus far, retouch or finish them in this manner ; brush thinly over your figure some varnish mixed with a little light oker; then put on your main lights, scrumbling them softly and gently into this wet ground, as far as is necessary. For a child mix, under the varnish, a little vermillion ; some light oker for a man ; and somewhat less light oker for a woman. ...
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A Treatise on the Art of Painting,
in all its branches; accompanied by seventy engraved plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters, Volume 2
by Gérard de Lairesse, 1817
...We see that many, without difference, be the figure in full proportion, or in little, give the touches under the nose so black and dark, that it seems as if a black beetle were proceeding thence; whereas it is certain, and nature teaches it, that when the light falls strong on the nose, the nostrils and their ground-shades can never appear so black ...
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How to Paint Permanent Pictures
By Maximilian Toch, 1922
I have investigated the methods, analyzed the material and demonstrated the folly of most of the procedures in common use to-day, and feel that there is a demand for a little book of this kind, which painters can use, and from which art students can acquire a sane method of producing permanent results.
If the painter once knows, either mechanically or unconsciously, the pigments that are absolutely permanent, and the principle involved in producing paintings which will not crack, fade, darken, peel, blister or decompose, his or her mind can be taken up completely with the artistic effect to be produced...
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The Artist's Repository; or, Encyclopedia of Fine Arts,
Volume: 1
History of the Arts;
Principles of Proportion;
The Human Figure
Published 1808 by C. Taylor in London
THE intention of this work is to cultivate as much as possible, our national taste for the Arts; it is therefore calculated for two purposes, one to initiate and instruct young persons,whose genius prompts them to these studies ; the other to gratify the taste of the Professor, whose judgment is mature. To accomplish this design, it commences with the principles of Art, and proceeds regularly until it comprehends a, complete system of picturesque knowledge...
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The Artist's Repository; or, Encyclopedia of Fine Arts,
Volume: 2
Landscape;
A Compendium of Colors, Etc.
Published 1808 by C. Taylor in London
Red lake may be prepared from cochineal, by gently boiling two ounces of cochineal in a quart of water ; filter the solution, add two ounces of pearl-ashes dissolved in half a pint of warm water, and filtered. Dissolve cuttlefish bone as in the former process : and, to a pint of it add two ounces of alum dissolved in half a pint of water. Put this mixture gradually to that of the cochineal and pearl-ashes...
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The Artist's Repository; or, Encyclopedia of Fine Arts,
Volume: 3
Perspective;
Architecture
Published 1808 by C. Taylor in London
I have now the honor to open a second series of Discourses on the Principles of the Arts of Design: In this Lecture I propose more immediately to elucidate the nature, and the general properties, of Perspective...
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The Artist's Repository; or, Encyclopedia of Fine Arts,
Volume: 4
Dictionary & history of art
Published 1808 by C. Taylor in London
BEAUTIFUL, in the arts, signifies whatever in nature is most perfect and complete; especially, in those objects which our train of thinking leads us to suppose are more eminently beautiful. Nothing is more vague than the ideas of most persons on what is beautiful; nor is it easy to propose regulations which shall produce beauty, though it is common for many persons to unite in opinion of what is not beautiful ...
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The Handmaid to the Arts
By Robert Dossie, 1758
COLOURS maybe either PIGMENTS or fluids. By pigments, it is meant all such solid bodies as require to be mixed with some fluid, as a vehicle, before they be used as paints, (except in the case of crayons, where they are used dry.) These make the far greatest part of the whole, the fluid colours being only a small number employed along with water colors and asphaltum, which is sometimes employed in oil painting.
Colors are distinguished into several kinds, according to the vehicles in which they are worked, as oil colours, water colors, enamel colors, etc. As the fame sorts of pigments, however, are, in many instances, employed in more than one kind of painting, as vermilion and lake in several, and ultramarine in all.
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Ladies' Manual of Art:
or, Profit and pastime: a self teacher in all branches of decorative art, embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood
by Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1890
Learning the art of drawing or writing, like all other Arts and Sciences, there are certain first and fixed prin- ciples to be observed as a foundation upon which the whole is built. A right understanding of these is absolutely necessary that we may become masters of that art which we undertake to learn. A neglect of these first principles is the reason why so many who have spent time sufficient to become accomplished artists, are, after all their pains and loss of time, incapable of producing even fair artwork...
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Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, Volume 1;
edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins
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Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci,
by Charles Lewis Hind
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John Singer Sargent - A Biography,
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Leonardo Da Vinci An Account Of His Development As An Artist.
by Kenneth Clark, 1952
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The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer. The classic study of Durer,
by Erwin Panofsky, 1955
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Sketches of Great Painters
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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete
By Leonardo Da Vinci
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Rembrandt Van Rijn
By Malcolm Bell, 1901
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Rembrandt
By John William Mollett, Carel Vosmaer
...is not only an exhaustive recapitulation of all that deserves notice in the writings of previous biographers and critics of Rem- brandt, it is a perfect systematic exposition of a theory that the biographer has worked out, of the cardinal importance of his subject...
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Great Artists, Vol 1.
Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer
by Jennie Ellis Keysor
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A Text-Book of the History of Painting
by John Charles Van Dyke
The origin of painting is unknown. The first important records of this art are met with in Egypt; but before the Egyptian civilization the men of the early ages probably used color in ornamentation and decoration, and they certainly scratched the outlines of men and animals upon bone and slate...
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Masters in art.
Leonardo da Vinci ,1901
THE place which Leonardo da Vinci holds in the history of art must always be unique. He stands alone among the painters of the Renaissance, by reason not only of the rare perfection of the high intellectual qualities of his art, but of the extraordinary influence which he exerted upon his contemporaries...
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The Art of Velasquez
by R.A.M. Stevenson, 1895
WHEN one speaks of Velasquez, it must be remembered that his influence upon art is still young. His genius slumbered for two hundred years, till the sympathy of one or two great artists broke the spell and showed us the true enchanter of realism,,,
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Raphael, the Prince of Art
by Mary I. Lovejoy, 1902
THE function of Art is to embody the universal." Whether Art is the product of the poet's pen, the artist's brush, the sculptor's chisel, or the musician's harmonious tones...
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The Grotesque in Church Art
by Thomas Tindall Wildridge, 1899
...THE term "Grotesque," which conveys to us an idea of humourous distortion or exaggeration, is simply grotto-esque, being literally the style of art found in the grottos or baths of the ancients. The term rose towards the end of the fifteenth century, when exhumation brought to light the fantastic decorations of the more private apartments of the licentious Romans...
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A Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art
by Clara Erskine Clement, 1890
...But later in its history, this art has been influenced by legends and doctrines in the choice of subjects, and these have been variously rendered, in accordance with the character, the aesthetic cultivation, and the refinement of the artist...
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The American Drawing-Book:
(a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist: especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction)
by J.G. Chapman, 1847
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The Art And Craft Of Drawing
by Vernon Blake, 1927
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The Elements of Drawing (1920 edition),
by John Ruskin
it may perhaps be thought, that in prefacing a Manual of Drawing, I ought to expatiate on the reasons why drawing should be learned; but those reasons appear to me so many and so weighty, that I cannot quickly state or enforce them...
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Line and Form
by Walter Crane, 1914
...OUTLINE, one might say, is the Alpha and Omega of Art. It is the earliest mode of expression among primitive peoples, as it is with the individual child, and it has been cultivated for its power of characterization and expression, and as an ultimate test of draughtsmanship, by the most accomplished artists of all time...
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Pen Drawing - An Illustrated Treatise,
by Charles Maginnis
Of the kindred arts which group themselves under the head of Painting, none is based on such broad conventions as that with which we are immediately concerned—the art of Pen Drawing. In this medium, Nature's variety of color, when not positively ignored, is suggested by means of sharp black lines, of varying thickness, placed more or less closely together upon white paper; while natural form depends primarily for its representation upon arbitrary boundary lines...
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Sketching and Rendering in Pencil
by Arthur Leighton Guptill, 1922
AN ARTISTIC conception is susceptible of translation into graphic expression through a variety of media, but by a certain universality of custom, or perhaps more accurately of convenience, the familiar lead pencil has achieved a significance derived from its immediate association with all forms of pictorial delineation...
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The Art of Caricature
By Grant Wright
NOTHING distinguishes civilized from uncivilized man with as much emphasis as humor, and the various stages of civilization are marked by the character and amount of humor of each epoch...
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Augsburg's Drawing,
Book 1
by De Resco Leo Augsburg, 1901
book I. A text book designed to teach drawing and color in the first, second and third grades.--book II. A text book of drawing designed for use in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades.--book III. A text book designed to teach brush drawing, wash drawing, water colors, pen drawing. The human head and figure, chalk modeling, designing and constructive drawing in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Also the high schools
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Augsburg's Drawing,
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by De Resco Leo Augsburg, 1912, 1901
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Caricature and other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands
By James Parton
There must be something precious in caricature, else the enemies of truth and freedom would not hate it as they do. Some of the worst excesses and perversions of satiric art...
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Free-Hand Drawing,
Light and Shade and Free-hand Perspective for the Use of Art Students and Teachers.
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A Practical Hand-Book of Drawing
for modern methods of reproduction
By Charles George Harper
Everywhere today is the Illustrator (artist he may not always be), for never was illustration so marketable as now; and the correspondence-editors of the Sunday papers have at length found a new outlet for the superfluous energies of their eager querists in advising the...
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The Practice & Science of Drawing
By Harold B.Speed, 1920
No work on Art has been published in recent years which might be more advantageously placed in the hands of a young student, as a statement of the logical elements of drawing and painting. Every page shows robust common sense expressed in a clear style...
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The Art of Caricaturing
By Smith, 1941
A Series of Lessons Covering All Branches of the Art of Caricaturing
In the writing and illustrating of this book my aim has been to produce a comprehensive and concise treatise on the art of caricaturing. It has been made as brief as is consistent with clearness and complete' ness...
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The Art Of Illustration
By Edmund J. Sullivan, 1921
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The Art of Illustration,
Second Edition
by Henry Blackburn, 1896
There is almost a revolution in illustration at the present time, and both old andl young — teachers and scholars — are in want of a handbook for reference when turning to the new methods. The illustrator of to-day is called upon suddenly to take the place of the wood engraver in interpreting tone into line...
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Perspective for Art Students
by Richard G. Hatton, 1910
He who has mastered these three lines, especially if he can sketch them in by freehand, has practically mastered perspective. Of course the solids do not necessarily occur lying flat on a horizontal surface, such as the ground. He, too, who would master sketching in perspective, must certainly be able to draw from imagination...
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Practical Drawing:
a book for the student and the general reader
By Edwin George Lutz
,,,But should drawing from the actual objects be so hard ? Wouldn't it be just as simple as working from the flat if the student could let himself believe that the visual rays from all the points of the object, or the view, were brought forward to a supposed plane directly in front of him ? This plane with the object or view thus ideally outlined he would need merely to consider as a huge flat copy to be faithfully imitated...
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The Art of Sketching from Nature:
With 27 illustrations designed by Thomas Rowbotham
by Thomas Rowbotham, 48th ed. 1912
In the brief course of instruction proposed in the following pages, the object is to lead the student to a successful result by the simplest means. The rules are few; but if carefully studied, they will be found applicable to every object occurring in ordinary experience...
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Freehand Perspective and Sketching: principles and methods of expression in the pictorial representation of common objects, interiors, buildings, and landscapes
By Dora Miriam Norton, 1908
FREEHAND Perspective teaches those few principles or truths which govern the appearance of things to the eye, and the application of these principles to the varied conditions encountered in drawing. Strictly speaking, there are but two foundation truths in perspective, namely...
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Line : an Art Study
by Edmund Joseph Sullivan, 1922
What, after all, is drawing but this the shortest line between the two points of an infinity withheld from our comprehension ? A short cut that the artist takes, while the mathematician goes round? Through and beyond lines, algebraic symbols, signs and formulae, it is the artist's trade...
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The Art of Drawing in Lead Pencil
by Jasper Salwey, 1921
...Many people now concede the claim that it is actually possible to suggest "a sense of colou " in a "black and white" drawing, and it is hoped that the notes in Chapter IX may at least convey to the student those principles upon which the claim is based...
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Drawing for Art Students and Illustrators
by Allen W. Seaby, 1921
...it becomes necessary to insist upon the importance of draughtsmanship in the classical sense, as understood by Holbein, Velasquez, Ingres, Menzel, and Degas. This technical power or faculty, call it what we will, is not a conjuring trick, a mere sleight-of-hand to be learned as a series of "tips," but must be acquired, if at all, by severe training...
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Handbook of Drawing
By William Walker, 1879
...As the eye is the most important gateway of knowledge, so far as the physical world is concerned, it ought to receive great culture, even with only a utilitarian motive, for the time is rapidly approaching when drawing will demand its right place...
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Trees and Tree Drawing;
by Edward C Clifford, 1921
Here it is purposed to deal with trees only, and it should at once be pointed out that trees have an anatomy, individual and class characteristics, limits to their areas of growth and to their endurance of certain conditions and changes of appearance under the influences of season, situation, and climate. As the figure painter studies the nude that he may be able to paint the costumed figure, as he must know the figure within the clothes, so should the landscape painter study the naked tree in winter, that he may be able to paint it rightly in its summer dress of foliage...
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The Sketcher's Manual;
or, The whole art of picture making reduced to the simplest principles
By Frank Howard, 1837
The objects in a drawing may be accurately outlined, and shaded very correctly, very neatly and delicately finished, and yet it shall still be less pleasing than a slight sketch, having no pretension to accuracy of outline or detail, but which possesses the charm of Pictorial Effect.
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ANATOMY:
Being a guide to the knowledge of the human body by dissection
By GEORGE VINER ELLIS
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Anatomy of the Human Body
By Henry Gray
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The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression:
as connected with the fine arts
By Sir Charles Bell, Alexander Shaw
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A Handbook of Anatomy for Art Students
By Arthur Thomson
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Human Anatomy for Art Students
By Sir Alfred Downing Fripp, Ralph Thompson, Harry Dixon
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The Artistic Anatomy of the Horse
By Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Before proceeeding to the Anatomy of the Horse, it may be desirable to glance at some of the varieties of form which have been represented in the works of the earlier masters, either of painting or sculpture...
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Duval's Artistic Anatomy:
completely revised, with additional original ...
By Mathias Duval, Andrew Melville Paterson
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Figure Construction:
A Brief Treatise on Drawing the Human Figure For Art Students, Costume Designers, and Teachers With Illustrations of Four-ininute Drawings by Students, supplemented by Photographs and Drawings by the Old Masters
By Alon Bement
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The Art of Figure Drawing
containing practical instructions for a course of study in this branch of art.
By Charles Harvey Weigall
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Anatomy for Artists
To Teachers and Students of Artistic Anatomy this Series of Diagrams will be invaluable...
By John Marshall, J. S. Cuthbert
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A Manual of Artistic Anatomy:
for the use of sculptors, painters, and amateurs
By Robert Knox
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Artistic Anatomy of Animals
as a complement to the study of human anatomy, a certain number of lessons on the anatomy of those animals which artists might be called on to represent...
By Edouard Cuyer, 1905
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The Human Machine,
by George B. Bridgman, 1939
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Constructive Anatomy,
by George B. Bridgman, 1920
The drawing's that are presented here show the conceptions that have proved simplest and most effective in constructing the human figure...
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The Quick and the dead: artists and anatomy
By Deanna Petherbridge, L. J. Jordanova, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, Royal College of Art
The drawings, prints, photographs, and objects in this book span five centuries and mark numerous cultural shifts, yet their imagery is as powerful today as when it was created...
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Anatomical Auxiliary: A key for the study of the artistic anatomy
By Henry Leidel jr.
The value of anatomy on the part of an Artist must not be underrated, for a sound knowledge of the same is a most useful aid...
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The Druggist's General Receipt Book,
by Henry Beasley
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One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed,
by C. A. Bogardus |
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Oil Painting - Free Art e-Books | Top ^
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The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour,
by Alfred East, 1907 |
The Art of Painting Portraits, Landscapes, Animals, Draperies, Satins, in Oil Colours...,
by
John Cawse, 1840
INDEX:
Introduction...Materials requisite for Painting in Oil...Colors used in Painting...Oils and Varnishes, Megelps, and Varnish...On Grounds...Portrait Painting...Method of painting a Portrait by Tints mixed and materiall and the complexion of the Sitter...First Sitting...Second sitting...Third Sitting...Back-grounds...Draperies...Landscapes...
General Directions for drawing Animals, Horses, Birds...Colours used for painting Black, White, Chestnut...how to copy a Miniature the size of life...
Picture Cleaning...
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The Art of Portrait Painting in Oil Colours
by
Henry Murray, 1851
Portraiture is the branch of art which has preceded all others in the English school; it has been carried to a degree of excellence in this country which has not been generally arrived at by others of the existing schools of Europe. The high and rare qualities of the art can only be communicated to a work after years of anxious study; all the niceties of execution are mechanical, but the power of vivifying the canvas is an intellectual faculty...
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The Book of the Art of
Cennino Cennini,
A Contemporary Practical Treatise on Quattrocento Painting.
By Cennino Cennini,
Translated from the Italian, with Notes on Mediaeval Art Methods by CHRISTIANA J. HERRINGHAM, Published by G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 2nd. ed. 1922
THIS treatise is properly so named. It is a comprehensive technical manual, teaching everything belonging to the painter's craft in the time of the writer. It is not a mere collection of recipes like most of the monkish secrets, but a school of art, and emphatically the working directions of a man who could do what he taught...
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A Guide to Oil Painting, Part 2,
Landscape From Nature
By Alfred Clint 1877
The object of this little book is to impart to the reader instruction in the Practical part of Landscape Painting in Oil Colors, and more particularly with reference to Painting from Nature
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Oil Painting:
a handbook for the use of students and schools,
By Frank Fowler 1885
The present Handbook has been prepared with the belief that there is a large and growing constituency of art lovers, and those engaged in the study of art, to whom a practical book on the methods of oil painting will not be unwelcome...
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A Manual of Oil Painting,
by John Collier, 1887
The art of painting in oils is a very difficult one, and not the least of its difficulties consists in the great uncertainty that exists as to the proper methods to be pursued
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Materials for a History of Oil Painting- (Volume 1),
by Charles Lock Eastlake, 1869 |
Materials for a History of Oil Painting- (Volume 2),
by Charles Lock Eastlake, 1869 |
The Painter in Oil;
A Complete Treatise on the Principles and Technique, Necessary to the painting of Pictures In Oil colors
By Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst 1903
...To say "do thus and so" will not teach any one to paint. But there are certain principles which underlie all painting, and all schools of painting ; and to state clearly the most important of these will surely be helpful, and may accomplish something...
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Painting in Oil;
a manual for use of students,
by Mary Louise McLaughlin, 1888
PAINTING in oil offers a means of artistic expression more nearly perfect than that afforded by any other method. Whatever may be the special charms of other mediums, this must ever remain the one which gives the freest range to the capacity of the artist, and the most direct and complete facility in the representation of nature...
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The Practice of Oil Painting and of Drawing as Associated with It,
by
Solomon J. Solomon, 1911
...With this object in view I have divided the work into a series of separate lessons or chapters, beginning with a method of drawing which is not, I believe, usually taught, but which my own students have found useful as an additional aid to the knowledge they had already acquired...
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Vasari on Technique:
being the introduction to the three arts of design; Of Painting in Oil on Panel or on Canvas. Oil Painting, its Discovery and Early History. A most beautiful invention and a great convenience to the art of Painting, was the discovery of colouring in oil...
By Giorgio Vasari
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Handbook of Young Artists and Amateurs in Oil Painting:
being chiefly a condensed compilation from the celebrated manual of booths, with additional matter selected from the labors of merimee, de montabert and other distinguished continental writers in the art ...
by Laughton Osborn, Pierre Louis Bouvier, 1849 |
The Art of Painting in Oil, and in Fresco:
being an account of the various methods and materials made use of by the professors of that art, from the time of Hubert and John Van Eyck, down to the present day...
By Jean-François-Léonor Mérimée |
Original Treatises: Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts of Painting, Vol 1
in oil, miniature, mosaic, and on glass ; op qildinq, dyeing, and the preparation of colours and artificial gems; preceded bt a general introduction ; with translations, prefaces. and notes,Vol 1
By Mary Philadelphia Merrifield, 1849 |
Original Treatises: Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts of Painting, Vol 2
in oil, miniature, mosaic, and on glass ; op qildinq, dyeing, and the preparation of colours and artificial gems; preceded bt a general introduction ; with translations, prefaces. and notes, Vol 2
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The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colours
By W. Williams (artist.), 1883
The following pages treat of one branch of the Art of Oil Painting—that of imitating upon canvas, with fidelity and truth, the varied aspects of Nature, as they present themselves to the eye in Landscape. It is taken for granted that the pupil is so far acquainted with the general principles of Drawing and Perspective, as to be able to apply them...
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Introduction to the Art of Painting in Oil Colors
By John Cawse, 1839
A Concise and systematic introduction to the use of the palette and colours has long been a desideratum to the student in the art of painting; for, of the many publications on this part of the art, most have been critical or theoretical, and none practical. The design of this work is to remove those difficulties which have hitherto been a great and serious hindrance to the improvement of the student...
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My Approach to Painting the Landscape in Oils
by Mike Callahan, 2008
The artist Mike Callahan has made availiable a PDF of his book My Approach to Painting the Landscape in Oils on his website and gallery page, you can also sign up for a free painting tips newsletter he publishes.
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The Guide to Oil Painting
By J S. Templeton, 1845
...the composition of Maguilps (Meguilp, Macgilp, Magelp, Magilp), and Mediums has usually occupied a considerable share of the attention of Artists, and consequently the recipes for their formation are numerous; but as the aim of this treatise is to simplify, and not to perplex, we shall only give a few of those which we consider the best.
No. 1.—Mix equal quantities of Drying Oil and Mastic Varnish, let the mixture stand undisturbed for a few minutes, and it will take the consistence of a thin transparent amber-colored jelly; this forms an agreeable Maguilp in very general use. No. 2 ...
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A Handbook for Painters and Art Students on the Character, Nature and Use of Colours,
Their Permanent or Fugitive Qualities, and the Vehicles Proper to Employ. also Short Remarks on the Practice of Painting in Oil and Water-Colors.
By William J. Muckley, Published by Baillière, Tindall, and Cox, 1880
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Analysis of Mixed Paints, Color Pigments, and Varnishes,
by Clifford Dyer Holley, Edwin Fremont Ladd, 1908
Partial contents:...Why Paints Fail; North Dakota Paint Law; Groups of Pigments; Sublimed Lead; Lithopone; Leaded Zinc; Zinc Lead White; Form of Label; Labels that Mislead ; Need of Paint Law ; Water in Paint ; Imitation White Leads; Paints supposed to be White Lead and Zinc; Whitewash; Short Measure and Weights; Relation of Lead to Zinc...
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The Chemistry of Paints and Painting,
By Arthur Herbert Church, Published by Seeley, 1901
Partial contents:...
XIII. white pigments - 145
XIV. yellow pigments - 157
XV. red pigments - 186
XVI. green pigments 212
XVII. blue pigments - 226
XVIII. brown pigments - 252
XIX. black pigments - - 264
XX. classification of pigments 274
XXI. tables of permanent, fugitive, and alter- able pigments - - 283
XXII. selected and restricted palettes - 290
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The Chemistry of Pigments,
By Ernest John Parry, John Henry Coste, Published by Scott, Greenwood, 1902
The authors have in the following pages endeavoured to indicate the chemical relationships, composition and properties of most of the better-known pigments. During recent years they have given a great deal of attention to the examination of painters' colours, and have from time to time found some difficulty in obtaining reliable information on the subject. This led to a considerable amount of work in obtaining and examining specimens of pigments...
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Field's Chromatography;
Or, A Treatise On Colours And Pigments, And Of Their Powers In Painting
by George Field
...Among the means essential to proficiency in Painting, none is more important than a just knowledge of Colors and Pigments — their qualities, powers, and effects...
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Safe Handling of Colour Pigments
By BCMA, EPSOM, ETAD, VdMI, Based on the booklet Safe Handling of Colour Pigments by the Color Pigments Manufacturers Association Inc.1993
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The Distillation of Resins:
Resinate Lakes and Pigments. Carbon Pigments and Pigments for Typewriting Machines, Manifolders, etc.
A description of the proper methods of distilling; resin-oils, the manufacture of resinates, resin-varnishes, resin-pigments, and enamel paints ; the preparation of all kinds of carbon pigments and printers' ink, lithographic inks and chalks, and also inks for typewriters, manifolders, and rubber stamps.
by Victor Schweizer, 1907
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Facts about Processes, Pigments and Vehicles: A Manual for Art Student,
By Arthur Pillans Laurie, Published by Macmillan, 1895
...CHAPTER 1:
HOW TO GRIND A PIGMENT IN WATER, OIL, OR OTHER MEDIUM:
For this purpose a muller and slab must be obtained. These are made of various sizes, but a muller 2 1/2 inches in diameter and a stone or glass slab 9 inches each way are all that is needed...
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The Household Cyclopedia,
By Henry Hartshorne 1881
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The Industrial and Artistic Technology of Paint and Varnish,
By Alvah Horton Sabin, Published by J. Wiley & Sons, 1904
WHEN we devote our attention to the subject of paint and painting, we seem to encounter matters on which the vast major- ity of commonly well-educated people feel almost entire ignorance and concerning which the opinion of any self-constituted expert...
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The Manufacture Of Earth Colours:
By DR. JOSEF BERSCH,
translated by CHARLES SALTER,SCOTT, GREENWOOD & SON
, 1921
...the necessity for a new edition afforded a welcome opportunity of revising "Earth Colors." Although, in the nature of things, little progress has been made in this subject itself, there was a good deal to add in connection with the mechanical appliances for treating the color earths and manufacturing them into pigments...
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The Manufacture of Lake Pigments from Artificial Colours,
by Francis H, Jennison, 1920, SECOND REVISED EDITION
The generic term "lake color" is applied to all pigments made from dyestuffs and coloring-matters, by precipitation of the coloring-matter as an insoluble compound, and serves to distinguish such colors from natural pigments, such as ochre, umber, etc...
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The Manufacture of Mineral and Lake Pigments,
containing directions for the manufacture of all artificial artists' and painters' colours, enamel colours, soot and metallic pigments,
by Josef Bersch, 1901
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Modern Technology of Paints, Varnishes & Lacquers 2nd Edition,
by the NIIR Board |
Modern Pigments and their Vehicles,
by Frederick Maire, 1908
IT is to be regretted that not withstanding it is a matter of prime importance that both dealers in painters' supplies and users of the same the painters and decorators should be well posted about the materials they handle, the vast majority have but the faintest ideas concerning the properties of pigments...
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The Painter and Varnisher's Guide:
or, A treatise, both in theory and practice, on the art of making and applying varnishes; on the different kinds of painting; and the method of preparing colors both simple and compound: with new observations and experiments on copal; on the nature of the substance employed in the composition of varnishes and of colors; and on various processes used in the art.
dedicated to the society at geneva for the encouragement of the arts, agriculture, and commerce.
By Pierre François Tingry, 1804
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Oil Colors and Printers' Inks;
a practical handbook treating of linseed oil, boiled oil, paints, artists' colours, lampblack and printers' inks, black and coloured
by
Louis Edgar Andés, 1903
...The great technical progress that has been made in every direction has naturally made itself felt in the manufacture of pigments for all purposes. This has been especially the case during the last forty years...
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Paint Making And Color Grinding,
a practical treatise for paint manufacturers and factory managers, including comprehensive information regarding factory arrangement; pigments; vehicles and thinners; liquid and cold water paints as well as practical working formulas and recipes
By Charles L. Uebele, 1913
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Color My World (PDF)
A Personal Scientific Odyssey into The Art of Ancient Dyes
By Zvi C. Koren
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Binding Medium, Pigments and Metal Soaps
characterised and localised in paint cross-sections
By Katrien Keune
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Molecular Studies of Asphalt, Mummy and Kassel Earth Pigments :
their characterization, identification and effect on the drying of traditional oil paint
By Georgiana M. Languri, University of Amsterdam, 18 May 2004
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Laser desorption mass spectrometric studies of artists'organic pigments
By Nicolas Wyplosz, University of Amsterdam, 20 November 2003 |
Microspectroscopic Analysis of Traditional Oil Paint
By Jaap van der Weerd, 2002
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Analytical Chemical Studies on Traditional Linseed Oil Paints
By Jorrit Dirk Jan van den Berg, University of Amsterdam, 26 April 2002
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Color Changes and Chemical Reactivity in Seventeenth-Century Oil Paintings
By
Annelies van Loon , University of Amsterdam, 15 January 2008
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Paints Quantified :
image analytical studies of preparatory grounds used by Van Gogh
By Beatrice Marino
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The Analysis of Paints and Painting Materials
The authors are presenting in this book a series of selected methods for the analysis of materials used in the manufacture of paints...
By Henry Alfred Gardner, John Ahlum Schaeffer, 1911
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The Natural Organic Colouring Matters
By Arthur George Perkin, Arthur Ernest Everest
THIS comprehensive treatise is the first English monograph to deal exhaustively with the fascinating but complex chemistry of the natural organic colouring matters. The historical aspect of the subject-matter and the scheme of classification are unfolded in the introduction, after which eighteen groups of natural dyes are described. The first chapter deals with the anthra-quinone group, containing alizarin, the colour principle of madder root...
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Practical Hints on Dyeing with Natural Dyes :
Production of comparative dyeings for the identification of dyes on historic materials
By Helmut Schweppe, 1986,
Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution
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Dictionary of Artists' Oil Pigments:
Their Chemical and Physical Properties
by R. Bruce Handlong, 1969
This work is primarily intended as a reference for the artist who seeks to know more about the chemical and physical properties of oil pigments that he has at his disposal. By better understanding these properties, the artist can insure the durability and permanency of his creations and, also, give him a firm foundation on which he may begin to develop an individual style...
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Facts About Processes, Pigments and Vehicles:
a manual for art student
By Arthur Pillans Laurie, 1895
HOW TO GRIND A PIGMENT IN WATER, OIL, OR OTHER MEDIUM:
For this purpose a muller and slab must be obtained. These are made of various sizes, but a muller 2 1/2 inches in diameter and a stone or glass slab 9 inches each way are all that is needed...
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Dictionary of Chemicals and Raw Products used in the Manufacture of Paints, Colours, Varnishes and Allied Preparations
By George Henry Hurst, F.C.S., 1901
The need of a book of reference giving brief descriptions of the various chemicals and other substances which are employed in the paint, colour and varnish trades has been expressed to me by many correspondents. In the following pages I have endeavoured to satisfy that need with, I hope, some small measure of success...
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Paint Film Components
National Environmental Health Monographs
By M van Alphen, 1998
"Diversity in paint formulations is driven by the need for a range of colors, applied to a wide range of substrates, a diversity of paint uses and differing exposure (weathering) conditions. There are many paint properties such as covering or obscuring power, drying time, paint-film-hardness, film flexibility, color permanence, water resistance, UV resistance, ease of application, control of paint layer thickness, rate of chalking, mould and fire resistance, among others, that are able to be modified by varying the properties and proportions of major components and minor additives..."
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A Treatise on Colour Manufacture: a Guide to the Preparation, Examination, and Application of all the Pigment Colors in Practical Use
By Georg Zerr, Robert Rübencamp, 1908
There being no English work on Color Manufacture approaching it in the fulness of its scope, the completeness of its details and its treatment of modern practice, arrangements were made to issue an English edition, and I am indebted to them for the careful oversight of my translation.
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Tables of Properties of Over Fifteen Hundred Common Inorganic Substances
By Wilhelm Segerblom, 1909
The tables on the following pages give the principal properties of such substances as may reasonably be looked for in a course in Qualitative Analysis. No attempt is made to record every known salt of every metal. Consequently, only the metals of the six groups usually studied are included, together with their oxides, hydroxides and more common salts. To increase the value of the book for general reference, tables are added covering the acids, non-metals and rare metals.
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Dyestuffs & Coal-tar Products:
their chemistry, manufacture and application, including Chapters on Modern Inks, Photographic Chemicals, Synthetic Drugs, Sweetening Chemicals, and other Products derived from Coal Tar
By Thomas Beacall; F. Challenger, Ph.D., B,Sc; Geoffrey Martin, Ph.D., M.Sc, B.Sc; and Henry J. S. Sand, D.Sc, Ph.D., 1915
The section on dyes has been brought as thoroughly as possible up to date, and the remarkable new dyes derived from indigo, as well as the anthracene vat dyes and sulphide dyes, have received special attention...
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The Chemistry of the Coal-tar Colours
By Rudolf Benedikt, 1889
...of these artificial coloring matters only very few of the many organic substances employed are obtained from the vegetable kingdom (e.g., tannin, which after its conversion into pyrogallol is used for the preparation of cerulein). The greater part of the materials which serve to furnish the artificial coloring matters is obtained from coal-tar...
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A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry
By Sir T. E. Thorpe, 1916
...Muller (J. pr. Chem. [ii.] 30, 252) has prepared purples by several processes without the use of tin. A pale rose (containing 0*1 p.o. of gold) to deep carmine pigment is produced by igniting a well washed and dried mixture of magnesium oxide and gold chloride...
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Outlines of industrial chemistry;
a text-book for students
by Frank Hall Thorp, Warren Kendall Lewis, 1916
THE object of this book is to furnish, an elementary course in Industrial Chemistry, which may serve as the ground work for a more extended course of lectures, if desired.
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Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines
Containing a Clear Exposition of their Principles and Practice
by Andrew Ure,
Ed. 7 revised and enlarged 1875, by Robert Hunt, assisted by F.W. Rudler
Every division of the Arts, - each special process of Manufacture, and all the branches of Mining, have been most cautiously examined, and such improvements, as have been proved to be of real utility, have been recorded in all necessary detail. This has led to an increase in the size of the volumes...
7th Ed.
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A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Colors for Painting:
Comprising the Origin, Definition, and Classification of Colors; the treatment of the raw materials, the best formula and the newest processes for the preparation of every description of pigment, and the necessary apparatus and directions for its use; dryers; the testing, application, and qualities of paints, etc. etc.
By Jean René Denis Riffault des Hêtres, Armand Denis Vergnaud, G. Alvar Toussaint, revised and edited by M.F. Malepeyre, 1874
"believed to be by far the most thorough and complete treatise upon the important subject which it considers, ever published in the English language.
It comprises some account of those pigments now known to have been used by the ancients; the principles of color as developed by Chevreul; thorough descriptions of the nature and properties of the raw materials used, and the processes and machinery for the manufacture of an immense variety of pigments; the combinations necessary in the compounding of those colors, hues, and tones which are the results of the mixture of colors; practical information as to dryers; and a variety of analyses and tests of pigments, and much other useful information ....etc."
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Rudiments of the Painters' Art: or, A grammar of colouring- applicable to operative painting, decorative architecture, and the arts. with coloured illustrations and practical instructions concerning the modes and materials of painting, etc.
By George Field, 1850
By the inverted arrangement of the primary colors, Red takes the place of Blue, Yellow that of Red, and Blue that of Yellow; and if these pairs of colors cross each other, or be alternately mixed they constitute an order of secondary colors: thus if Blue be mixed with Yellow, they will form Green; if Yellow be mixed with Red they form Orange color ; and if Red be mixed with Blue they form Purple; and these second denominations, Green, Orange, and Purple, constitute the second order of colors.
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Painters' Colours, Oils, and Varnishes: A Practical Manual
By George Henry Hurst, 1892
The white pigments are a very important group of painters* "colors," probably the most important, as while the red, blue, green, etc., pigments are used simply or almost entirely as coloring pigments, the white pigments are used in two ways— 1st, as "body colors," i.e., to give body or covering power to paint; 2nd, as "coloring pigments." Thus, in making a red paint, white lead or barytes is added to give the necessary body and vermilionette is used to color the paint. On account of this dual feature of the white pigments they merit a more detailed account of each individual member of the group than is necessary for other pigments...
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The Camera : or Art of Drawing in Water Colours,
with instructions for sketching form nature : comprising the whole process of water-coloured drawing, familiarly exmplified in drawing, shadowing, and tinting a complete landscape ... and directions for compounding and using colours, sepia, Indian ink, bister, etc...
by J. Hassell, 1823
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On the Theory of Painting;
to which is added and index of mixed tints, and an introduction to painting in water-colours, with precepts
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T. H. Fielding, 1836
THE chief effect of improvement in arts and sciences is in their simplification, and consequent greater diffusion, giving increased advantages to subsequent writers, who may condense more than their prede- cessors, and at the same time be equally well or better understood...
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Practical Directions for Portrait Painting in Water Colours,
by Mary P. Merrifield, 1850
to the person unaccustomed to the use of colors it appears a task of considerable difficulty to paint a head from life and to imitate with accuracy and precision or even to be able to distinguish the delicate gradations of the tints and the correct form as modified by perspective...
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The Practice of Water-colour Painting,
by A. L. Baldry, 1911
The art of water-color painting is capable of being applied in so many ways, and has such a variety of technical possibilities, that an attempt to sum up its processes arbitrarily is practically impossible: the object of this book, therefore, is to show how futile any such attempt would be...
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The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours.
Illustrated by a series of twenty-six drawings and diagrams in colours, and numerous woodcuts,
by George Barnard, 1861
The object of the present work, therefore, is to supply that which the author, in a long course of professional teaching, has found necessary for the advancement of his pupils. The diagrams and illustrations introduced are such as have been found most useful in elucidating the theory and practice of colour in landscape-painting, and at the same time in diminishing the labour of the pupil in acquiring this valuable and attractive art...
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Water-colour.
by Neville Stephen Lytton, 1911
BY the term water-color, I mean landscape drawings done in wash. There are an immense number of works painted in water- color which cannot be described as wash drawings. For instance...
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Water Color Painting,
a book of elementary instruction for beginners and amateurs,
by Grace Barton Allen, 1898
This early works is a comprehensive and informative look at the subject of Watercolor painting with much of the information still being useful and practical today. Chapters include; Introduction, colours, Materials, Flowers fruit and still life, Landscapes and Marines, Figures and Animals, Monochrome, Decoration, Composition, Glossary, Index and Colour washes...
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Painting in Water Colours
By Henry Warren
DIFFERENCE OF WATER AND OIL PAINTING. sought to be represented ; in neither is the material of such imitation to be first evident ; and it would appear that approximation to proper means were carried on in both ; and such should art...
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The Theory and Practice of Water Colour Painting
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Water-colour Painting
Oil and Water-Colour Painting contrasted—Ambitious Mistakes of Beginners—Water-Colour Painting To-day—Methods— The best way to begin...
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Masters of Water-Colour Painting
by H. M. Cundall and C. Geoffrey Holme
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Water Color Painting
By Adolf Dehn, 1945
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Trees, and How to Paint Them in Water-Colors
by William Henry James Boot
" I DON'T know how it is, but I can't do trees," is a remark an artist frequently hears; and it is too often justified by the poor and crude attempts at tree delineation that accompany it...
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Talks in My Studio: The Art of Seeing,
Facts and Fancies about Art, Pictures, Together with a Plain Guide to Water-Color Painting and Sketching from Nature
By John Ivey
...Since water-color has asserted itself in the hands of many of the world's great modern masters as the best medium of interpreting the tenderest and most charming passages of atmospheric effects, and, moreover, has been proved to be absolutely permanent in character, there is naturally a rapidly increasing interest exhibited toward it on the part of all lovers of pictures and of wealthy collectors...
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A Practical Treatise on Drawing and on Painting in Water Colours,
with illustrative examples in pencil, in sepia, and in water colors, leading the pupil progressively, from the first rudiments, to the completion of works of art in their finished state; comprehending the treatment of coast scenery, river scenery, and general landscape.
By Giles Firman Phillips, 1839
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Wood-Block Printing
A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice
by F. Morley Fletcher
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Bound By Law
By Daya Filmaker
This book is about the effects of intellectual property on culture – something of interest to artists and citizens around the world. Reflecting the authors’ expertise, the legal discussion in the book is primarily focused on US law, which has strongly influenced the global cultural marketplace...
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Technique of Sculpture
By William Ordway Partridge
Sculpture is the oldest of the arts. Long before the Scriptures were written we find products of it in ancient Egypt. It is the most enduring, as well as the most ancient, of all arts...
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Memoirs Illustrative of the Art of Glass-Painting
By Charles Winston, 1865
It is evident," he observes, " that the first step towards elevating glass-painting to the rank it once held among the arts, is to estimate its productions by those sound rules of criticism which are alike applicable to all works of art..
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Beautiful Women in Art
Vol. 1
By Armand Dayot, 1902
A GENERAL view of the portraits of women reproduced in this volume, portraits of women belonging to the most remote antiquity, as well as those of lovely contemporaries, shows very clearly that the author found himself compelled to choose, from among the innumerable feminine rep- resentations which we owe to the brush of the painter and the chisel of the sculp- tor, those in which the genius of the author and the beauty of the model are most perfectly expressed...
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Beautiful Women in Art
Vol. 2
By Armand Dayot, 1902
O designate a feminine type in which beauty depends upon the incessant play of expression, the in- tense, changeable animation of the physiognomy, we usually say: an eighteenth century. And, in fact, this type is to be met with in the definitive form of the masterpiece, in the works of La Rosalba, Watteau, Latour, Fragonard, and others...
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The Art of Bookbinding
Joseph William Zaehnsdorf, 1880
This book is intended to give the amateur sufficient knowledge to enable him to avoid such mistakes in his purchases, and at the same time give him as much instruction as will, if his inclination and time permit, enable him to bind his own volumes as his wishes and taste may dictate. To this end I have endeavoured to explain, in as concise a manner as possible, the various branches of the trade...
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The Magic Art,
Being Volume 1 of the Magic Art Series
by donald Holms 1920
...I make no apologies for the inclusion of certain known tricks and devices. The book is not intended so much for the collector of magical literature as for that great host of aspiring amateurs, who, seeking after enlightenment in the world of conjuring...
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The Art of Magic
Thomas Nelson Downs, 1921
For the purpose of this book it will be convenient to divide magic into three branches: manual dexterity, mental subtleties and the surprising results produced by a judicious and artistic blending of the second and third branches...
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The Art of Brewing
by David Booth, 1829
The artificial formation of exhilarating and intoxicating liquors has been practised in most ages and nations...
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The Art of Miniature Painting
by Charles William Day, 1852
...Almost every painter sees nature with a different eye, and uses different colours to imitate it, some more successfully than others; the colours, however, to be shortly mentioned below, will produce every effect that may be required...
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The Art of Fresco Painting;
as practised by the old Italian and Spanish Masters,
a preliminary inquiry the nature the colours used in fresco painting, with observations and notes.
Mrs. Merrifield, translator of Cennino Cennini
By Mary Philadelphia Merrifield, 1846
The revival of the art of Fresco Painting in the nineteenth century, will be an epoch in the fine arts, and, will probably, be the means of forming a great school of painting in this country, and lead to the improvement of the sister arts of sculpture and architecture...
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Stained Glass as an Art
by Henry Holiday, 1896
...for this purpose three things are indispensable : 1. A brief but clear account of the technique and methods pertaining to the material. 2. An examination into the artistic possibilities inherent in it from the point of view of its technique. 3. A consideration of the artistic question in relation to the situation and purpose of the work...
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The Art of Wood Carving
by George Alfred Rogers, 1867
...In commencing the study of wood-carving it will be well to see that the necessary implements and materials are at our hand; I will, therefore, give in this section a list and description of the various items we shall require in the course of our work...
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A Manual of Wood Carving
By Charles Godfrey Leland
..the author has endeavoured in these pages to treat wood-carving not merely as a fine art, whose chief aim is to produce specimens of fancy work for exhibitions, and facsimiles of flowers, never to be touched, but also to qualify the learner for a calling, and what nine-tenths of all practical wood-carving really consists of...
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Practical Forging and Art Smithing
by Thomas Francis Googerty, 1915
...The artistic success of this book lies in the evident fact that the work represented appears "Hand wrought and fashioned to beauty and use." ...
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The Art of Making Paper
by Rensselaer W Daniels, 1905
...As in the case of many useful arts, the earliest beginnings of paper-making, properly so-called, must be traced among the Chinese ; but it is worth while to bestow some atten- tion upon a material which anticipated both the name and function of paper...
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The Fine Art of Photography
by Paul Lewis Anderson
THERE are almost as many definitions of the phrase " fine art " as there are writers on the subject, one author even maintaining that any beautiful object produced by man is a work of fine art, a definition which would obviously include Oriental rugs, automobiles, grand pianos and repeating rifles; but the definition which the present author prefers, and on which the discussion in the following pages is based, is as follows: A fine art is any medium of expression which permits one person to convey to another an abstract idea of a lofty or ennobling character, or to arouse in another a lofty emotion.
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Master Art Forger The Story Of Han Van Meegeren
by John Godley, 1951
...It is a fact that he proceeded to paint six spurious "Vermeers" and forge two "de Hoochs" and that these pictures were unanimously hailed as outstanding examples from the Brushes of two of the greatest artists of all time. The experts and the connoisseurs agreed on that...
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Forgers, Dealers, Experts, Strange Chapters In The History Of Art
by Sepp Schuller, 1960
Who are the forgers and who are the experts? It is not always easy to say, so great is the skill and ingenuity employed by forgers when copying a work of art. The greatest art experts can be, and have been, taken in by a clever piece of forgery and though the forger's motives are questionable his skill deserves recognition...
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Creative Ceramics A Primitive Craft Becomes A Fine Art
by Kartherine Morris Lester, 1948
...It was, no doubt, the highly plastic quality of clay and its sensitive response to the slightest pressure that fascinated the primitives. It is this same plastic quality which, charmlike, continues to hold the interest of moderns...
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The Principles of Light and Color
By Edwin D. Babbitt, 1878
it seemed quite possible at last to crystallize the subjects of Light, Color, and other Fine Forces into a science, and learn their chemical and therapeutical potencies as well as many of their mystic relations to physical and psychological action...
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The Art of Illumination, as Practised During the Middle Ages:
With a description of the metals, pigments, and processes employed by the artists at different periods
By Henry Shaw. 1870
Of all the relics of the middle ages which have been preserved to our times, none possess a greater amount of interest, or more varied instruction, than illuminated manuscripts. Whether we regard them, in their almost infinite variety, as an assemblage of all that is most graceful in design and gorgeous in colouring...
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