The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting
Title | The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel V. Thompson |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2012-05-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0486142035 |
Medieval painters built up a tremendous range of technical resources for obtaining brilliance and permanence. In this volume, an internationally known authority on medieval paint technology describes these often jealously guarded recipes, lists of materials, and processes. Based upon years of study of medieval manuscripts and enlarged by laboratory analysis of medieval paintings, this book discusses carriers and grounds, binding media, pigments, coloring materials, and metals used in painting. It describes the surfaces that the medieval artist painted upon, detailing their preparation. It analyzes binding media, discussing relative merits of glair versus gums, oil glazes, and other matters. It tells how the masters obtained their colors, how they processed them, and how they applied them. It tells how metals were prepared for use in painting, how gold powders and leaf were laid on, and dozens of other techniques. Simply written, easy to read, this book will be invaluable to art historians, students of medieval painting and civilization, and historians of culture. Although it contains few fully developed recipes, it will interest any practicing artist with its discussion of methods of brightening colors and assuring permanence. "A rich feast," The Times (London). "Enables the connoisseur, artist, and collector to obtain the distilled essence of Thompson's researches in an easily read and simple form," Nature (London). "A mine of technical information for the artist," Saturday Review of Literature.
The Materials of Medieval Painting
Title | The Materials of Medieval Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel V. Thompson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2019-07-21 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781684223688 |
2019 Reprint of 1936 U.S. Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Professor Thompson has written an extremely interesting and valuable book on a subject very rarely dealt with, the materials used by medieval painters, or as he calls it, " the cookery of art." In the first chapter the author discusses the various types of surfaces employed by the medieval painters, such as parchment, vellum, wood, walls, and canvas. In chapter two he deals with the different binding media that had to be used to bind the pigments to the different types of surfaces. The third and longest chapter deals with the pigments themselves. This book, written in a very pleasing style, will appeal not only to those interested in medieval painting itself, but to anyone who wishes further knowledge on various medieval plants, and on certain chemical problems of the Middle Ages.
The Materials of Medieval Painting
Title | The Materials of Medieval Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Varney Thompson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1936 |
Genre | Artists' materials |
ISBN |
The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting
Title | The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Varney Thompson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 1936 |
Genre | Artists' materials |
ISBN |
Painted Prayers
Title | Painted Prayers PDF eBook |
Author | Roger S. Wieck |
Publisher | |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
This book features 107 of the finest examples of illuminated pages from medieval and Renaissance Books of Hours. Roger Wieck's comprehensive text introduces the Book of Hours -- a "bestseller" for three hundred years -- to the general reader, discussing its iconography, the artists who illuminated this genre, and its role as a religious text in the lives of its owners. As a collection of both stirring words and inspiring images, the Book of Hours thus comprised a series of "painted prayers".
Mediaeval Painters' Materials and Techniques
Title | Mediaeval Painters' Materials and Techniques PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Clarke |
Publisher | Archetype Publications |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Artists' materials |
ISBN | 9781904982647 |
Medieval painting was a craft. The anonymous Montpellier Liber diversarum arcium ('Book of various arts') is a handbook prescribing how that craft was to be practiced. It contains over five hundred art-technological instructions or 'recipes' in Latin. Unlike the vast majority of medieval artists' recipe books, this content is highly structured and organised, such as to form a complete handbook or course on painting. This Liber diversarum arcium is probably the most substantial and comprehensive medieval painters' technical recipe book to survive. It summarises the state-of-the art in the European workshops of the fourteenth century. This volume makes the Liber diversarum arcium usable to modern readers for the first time, by restoring the text in over 150 places where its corruption obscures the technical sense, by translating the text into English, and by providing a running commentary to explain the technical processes and technical terminology.
Medieval Art
Title | Medieval Art PDF eBook |
Author | Veronica Sekules |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2001-04-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780192842411 |
This refreshing new look at Medieval art conveys a very real sense of the impact of art on everyday life in Europe from 1000 to 1500. It examines the importance of art in the expression and spread of knowledge and ideas, including notions of the heroism and justice of war, and the dominant view of Christianity. Taking its starting point from issues of contemporary relevance, such as the environment, the identity of the artist, and the position of women, the book also highlights the attitudes and events specific to the sophisticated visual culture of the Middle Ages, and goes on to link this period to the Renaissance. The fascinating question of whether commercial and social activities between countries encouraged similar artistic taste and patronage, or contributed to the defining of cultural difference in Europe, is fully explored.