Pliny: Natural History, Volume IX, Books 33-35. (Loeb Classical Library No. 394)2 reviews Pliny Loeb Classical Library, 1952 Books 33-35 + An ancestor of Borges, Kafka and Calvino Pliny the Elder's Natural History is published in many volumes covering a number of topics, which he differentiates by "books." Books 33 through 35 deal with Ancient Greece painting and sculpture and the artists who created those works. Because all Ancient Greek paintings have been destroyed ...             Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting: Original Texts with English Translations (History ...2 reviews Mrs. Mary P. Merrifield Dover Publications, 1999 It is still one of the most important books on the argument + It is still one of the most important books on the argument Written in 1848-9, this book contains some of the most important manuscripts on the arts, like the MANOSCRITTO BOLOGNESE, HERACLIUS BOOK, MANUSCRIPT OF JEHANN LE BEGUE, ecc.. Each manuscript is in its original language together with the english translation. The introduction by M.P.Merrifield is ...             Artist's Techniques in Golden Age Spain: Six Treatises in Translation Cambridge University Press, 1987 This collection of translated passages on painting techniques is taken from six seventeenth-century treatises written in Spain and Portugal by Nunes, Corducho, Pacheco, Hidalgo and Velasco. These technical writings reveal invalable information about the artists' painting methods, providing both art historians and conservators with a firmer base for dealing with practical and theoretical problems ...             Vasari on Technique Giorgio Vasari Dover Publications, 1960 Great craftsman and biographer's full, readable discussions of architecture — orders, pavements, planning and design, etc.; sculpture — modelling in wax and clay, tools and materials used in marble carving, reliefs, bronze figures, etc.; painting — foreshortening, coloring, fresco, tempera, gilding, stained glass windows, niello work, etc. 29 illustrations.             The Craftsman's Handbook: "Il Libro dell' Arte"7 reviews Cennino d'Andrea Cennini, Jr. Daniel V. Thompson Dover Publications, 1954 Cennino's Handbook, Still Illuminating + Insight into renaissance painting technique + A Masterpiece + instruction manual for historic painting             Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo da Vinci with a Selection of Documents Relating to ... Yale University Press, 2001 Leonardo's writings on painting--among the most remarkable from any era--were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also from his surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources, some of which were here translated for the first time. The resulting volume is an ...             The Ten Books on Architecture8 reviews Vitruvius Dover Publications, 1960 Through the eyes of a Roman + interesting perspective + hard to follow + This is a good book, but Granger's translation is better. + A Roman Gentleman Metik who Created a Practical Masterwork             Pliny: Natural History, Volume IX, Books 33-35. (Loeb Classical Library No. 394)2 reviews Pliny Loeb Classical Library, 1952 Books 33-35 + An ancestor of Borges, Kafka and Calvino Pliny the Elder's Natural History is published in many volumes covering a number of topics, which he differentiates by "books." Books 33 through 35 deal with Ancient Greece painting and sculpture and the artists who created those works. Because all Ancient Greek paintings have been destroyed ...             The Ten Books on Architecture8 reviews Vitruvius Dover Publications, 1960 Through the eyes of a Roman + interesting perspective + hard to follow + This is a good book, but Granger's translation is better. + A Roman Gentleman Metik who Created a Practical Masterwork             Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo da Vinci with a Selection of Documents Relating to ... Yale University Press, 2001 Leonardo's writings on painting--among the most remarkable from any era--were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also from his surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources, some of which were here translated for the first time. The resulting volume is an ...             Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting: Original Texts with English Translations (History ...2 reviews Mrs. Mary P. Merrifield Dover Publications, 1999 It is still one of the most important books on the argument + It is still one of the most important books on the argument Written in 1848-9, this book contains some of the most important manuscripts on the arts, like the MANOSCRITTO BOLOGNESE, HERACLIUS BOOK, MANUSCRIPT OF JEHANN LE BEGUE, ecc.. Each manuscript is in its original language together with the english translation. The introduction by M.P.Merrifield is ...             Vasari on Technique Giorgio Vasari Dover Publications, 1960 Great craftsman and biographer's full, readable discussions of architecture — orders, pavements, planning and design, etc.; sculpture — modelling in wax and clay, tools and materials used in marble carving, reliefs, bronze figures, etc.; painting — foreshortening, coloring, fresco, tempera, gilding, stained glass windows, niello work, etc. 29 illustrations.             The Craftsman's Handbook: "Il Libro dell' Arte"7 reviews Cennino d'Andrea Cennini, Jr. Daniel V. Thompson Dover Publications, 1954 Cennino's Handbook, Still Illuminating + Insight into renaissance painting technique + A Masterpiece + instruction manual for historic painting             Artist's Techniques in Golden Age Spain: Six Treatises in Translation Cambridge University Press, 1987 This collection of translated passages on painting techniques is taken from six seventeenth-century treatises written in Spain and Portugal by Nunes, Corducho, Pacheco, Hidalgo and Velasco. These technical writings reveal invalable information about the artists' painting methods, providing both art historians and conservators with a firmer base for dealing with practical and theoretical problems ...