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Author: Mrs. Mary P. Merrifield
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 1284
ISBN-13: 0486404404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRare 1849 work reprints 12th- through 17th-century manuscripts on painting and related arts — oil painting practices, mixing pigments, and much more. Commentary on each treatise, plus an extensive introduction.
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 918
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carl Becker
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783836520263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom delicate jewelry to the most elaborate goblet, this book brings together gems of the applied arts from the Middle Ages right through to the Renaissance. The 216 hand-colored copperplate engravings offer the contemporary reader both a record and a sourcebook of all that can be achieved by the human hand and creative imagination.
Author: Mary Philadelphia Merrifield
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 680
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its original publication in 1849, Mrs. Merrifield's two-volume work on the technology of Medieval and Renaissance oil painting has been one of the foremost among a scarce handful of valued reference books dealing with this subject. The work reprints (with the original-language version and its English translation on facing pages) manuscript collections on painting and related arts roughly from the 12th through the 17th centuries.
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2005-10-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0892367857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Author: P. L. Jacob
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 582
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes material on medieval and Renaissance furniture, tapestry, ceramic art, arms and armor, carriages, saddlery, goldwork, silverwork, horology (watchmaking), musical instruments, playing cards, glass-painting, fresco-painting, painting on wood, canvas, etc., engraving, sculpture, architecture, parchment, paper, manuscripts, miniatures, bookbinding, and printing.
Author: Heidi C. Gearhart
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2017-05-02
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 0271079819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study of the rare twelfth-century treatise On Diverse Arts, Heidi C. Gearhart explores the unique system of values that guided artists of the High Middle Ages as they created their works. Written in northern Germany by a monk known only by the pseudonym Theophilus, On Diverse Arts is the only known complete tract on art to survive from the period. It contains three books, each with a richly religious prologue, describing the arts of painting, glass, and metalwork. Gearhart places this one-of-a-kind treatise in context alongside works by other monastic and literary thinkers of the time and presents a new reading of the text itself. Examining the earliest manuscripts, she reveals a carefully ordered, sophisticated work that aligns the making of art with the virtues of a spiritual life. On Diverse Arts, Gearhart shows, articulated a distinctly medieval theory of art that accounted for the entire process of production—from thought and preparation to the acquisition of material, the execution of work, the creation of form, and the practice of seeing. An important new perspective on one of the most significant texts in art history and the first study of its kind available in English, Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art provides fresh insight into the principles and values of medieval art making. Scholars of art history, medieval studies, and Christianity will find Gearhart’s book especially edifying and valuable.
Author: Theophilus
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-04-30
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0486145417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I have made it my concern to hunt out this technique for your study as I learned it by looking and listening." On Divers Arts, c. 1122, is the oldest extant manual on artistic crafts to be written by a practicing artist. Before Theophilus, manuscripts on the arts came from scholars and philosophers standing outside the actual profession. On Divers Arts describes actual 12th-century techniques in painting, glass, and metalwork, which the Benedictine author wished to pass on to those gifted by God with a talent for making beautiful things. Theophilus teaches, with rigorous attention to fact but also with great reverence the making of pigments for fresco painting, the manufacture of glue, the technique of gold leaf on parchment (the first recorded European reference to true paper), how to blow glass and design stained glass windows, how to fashion gold and silver chalices, and how to make a pipe organ and church bells. Precise instruction on enameling, chasing, repoussé, niello, and beaded wire work prove Theophilus's first-hand knowledge of his craft. While 90 percent of Theophilus's writing is sound technical knowledge, medieval folk lore occasionally spices his text: "Tools are also made harder by hardening them in the urine of a small red-headed boy than by doing so in plain water." But the magnificent fact of On Divers Art remains its status as the first technical treatise on painting, glass, and metalwork, for which actual specimens still survive. The editors have taken care to ensure both philological and technological accuracy for this authoritative edition of a medieval classic, a manual of great importance to craftsmen, historians of art and science, and all who delight in the making of the beautiful.
Author: Ricardo Córdoba de la Llave
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom a symposium held in Cordoba in 2005, yet largely enriched with new developments, recent research and innovative communications, this collection explores the modes of transmission of technical knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Author: Gregorio Comanini
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780802084460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf the many treatises written in Italy during the Counter-Reformation, none is more illustrative of the intellectual fermentation of the period than Comanini's work on the purpose of painting, Il Figino overo del fine della Pittura (1591). Although the importance of Il Figino has long been recognized, the text has remained largely inaccessible to many scholars throughout the world. This first complete English translation will make the work available to those readers for the first time. In Il Figino, Comanini addresses all of the most hotly debated aesthetic issues of the time, drawing on an array of classical, medieval and Renaissance sources, including Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Mazzoni, Tasso and Paleotti. The editor and translator provide copious notes which clarify Comanini's aesthetic and theological references, as well as a lucid introduction that places the issues and debates in context. Comanini's impressive erudition makes his treatise an excellent barometer of the state of scholarship in the Counter-Reformation era. This translation is a long-overdue addition to the field of Renaissance studies.
