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13th Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311255, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm
A French collection of recipes for painting on parchment, On Making Colours, by a painter, Peter of St. Audemar, possibly of the Benedictine Abbey of St Bertin at St. Omer in northern France. St. Omer was an active centre of painters and scribes from...
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14th Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311248, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm
From Italy to France to Flanders, the arts of painting in the 14th century were practised in manuscript illumination, on panel, and in fresco. Recipes for pigments appropriate to all these arts are included in this collection. "Experiments upon Colou...
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1st to 19th Century Pigments
ISBN: PB: 9780946311262, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
288 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm
A collection of all the historical pigments mentioned in the treatises included in the series, Colour Palettes, by century, complemented by recipes from other contemporary sources. The entries define the pigment – colour, its source (animal, plant, m...
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16th Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311132, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm
Three texts by two Italian Renaissance painters – Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Paolo Lomazzo – and a compendium of the 53 standard pigments commonly found on artists' palettes for painting in oil on panel and on canvas as outlined by the writer, Raffae...
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17th Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311101, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.
Ten 17th century writers described the pigments in use in their countries – England, Sweden, Flanders, France, Spain, and Italy. The theme of their treatises was studio practice and the pigments were discussed as they were set on the palette. Surpris...
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18th Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311019, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm
Pigments described by the English chemist, Robert Dossie, the French artists' colourman, Jean Felix Watin, and the London-based pigment maker, Constant de Massoul. 18th century European painting saw the introduction of new pigments to the painters' p...
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1st Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311149, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 12 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.
The sources of pigments used in European painting are found in classical antiquity, 1st. century B.C. to 1st century A.D. The over 40 pigments in use were described by Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides, complemented by 3rd century B.C. Theop...
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Bejewelled Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England
ISBN: PB: 9780861592098, Casemate, British Museum Press, December 2017
200 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 160 illus.
Jewellery is often viewed as a feminine preoccupation, but in Tudor and Jacobean England men wore just as much (if not more) jewellery as their female counterparts. Jewels themselves were valued not merely for their intrinsic monetary worth, but also...
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Soutine's Portraits Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys
ISBN: PB: 9781911300212, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2017
144 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus.
Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) produced some of the most powerful and expressive portraits of modern times. His ability to capture in paint the character, humanity and emotion of his sitters is the hallmark of Soutine's greatest work. The major exhibition...
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Basic Instincts Love, Lust and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore
ISBN: PB: 9781911300281, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, September 2017
120 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus.
Published to coincide with the exhibition at the Foundling Museum in London, this fascinating book will re-introduce Joseph Highmore (1692-1780), an artist of status and substance in his day, who is now largely unknown. It takes as its focus Highmore...
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