The Craftsman's Handbook: "Il Libro dell' Arte"
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 048620054X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Thompson's definitive English translation of Il Libro dell'Arte, an intriguing guide to methods of painting, written in fifteenth-century Florence. And that is much of its charm. Embodying the secrets and techniques of the great masters, it served as an art student's introduction to the ways of his craft.Anyone who has ever looked at a medieval painting and marveled at the brilliance of color and quality of surface that have endured for 500 years should find this fascinating reading. ("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 readers might be tempted to experiment with the methods given here for their own amusement and curiosity.Today artists are no longer interested in specific directions on keeping miniver tails from becoming m
"A primary resource!" according to medievallassie. This book was recommended to me a year ago at a scribal arts meeting for illuminators and I was intrigued. A year later I bought the book to get my "free shipping" and I'm kicking myself for waiting! It is filled with exactly what it sayshistorical drawing techniques as well as recipes and keen insight into the materials used by the great masters. This is a wonderful book for those of u. How to Do it: The Craft Behind the Art Kenneth Hughes When exactly Cennino Cennini put together his famous handbook is not clear. It must have been quite early in the fifteenth century, for although his stated intention is to provide advice "for the use and good and profit of anyone who wants to enter this profession" (1), he has only very little to say about oil painting and seems unaware of the latest developments of that exciting new me. tom shumate said good reference. Very interesting insights into how art processes got to where they are. A bit hard to read with all the footnotes and archaic language and sentence structure, but worth the effort. A book for the more scholarly student of art or someone who just likes to know why.
But when we remember the magnificent mosaics, paintings, and frescoes these methods produced, the book takes on an even greater value as a touchstone to another age."Recommended to the student of art." — Craft Horizons."Obviously of great merit." — Art Material Trade News."Delightful flavor." — New York Herald Tribune.Recommended in Harvard List of Great Books on Art, Shaw's List of Books for College Libraries.. The Craftsman's Handbook, in which these are ordinary parts of the artist's work, appears quaint and naïve to us. 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. It describes such lost arts as gilding stone, making mosaics of crushed eggshell, fashioning saints' 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. ("I will not tell you a