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The History of Modern Painting Volume I
by Richard MutherThe History of Modern Painting written by Richard Muther in four volumes. The most challenging part in writing a book on painting is the deficiency of authentic sources.The then artists never bothered take credit for their works and ignored to record their names in their great works. This book tries to capture the information of the modern..
The History of Modern Painting Volume 2
by Richard MutherThe History of Modern Painting written by Richard Muther in four volumes. The most challenging part in writing a book on painting is the deficiency of authentic sources.The then artists never bothered take credit for their works and ignored to record their names in their great works. This book tries to capture the information of the modern..
The Practice and Science of Drawing
by Harold SpeedThe Practice and Science of Drawing is written by Harold Speed an English portraits painter and a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. In the preface of this book, it is clearly stated that this book is not for students who want to learn painting by practicing mechanical drawings such as cubes, cones, cylinders and human head. Like ..
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
by Leonardo Da VinciThe Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci is not a biography, rather the legend’s training guide to painting. The author of this book states many things about the method used by Leonardo. He had the practice of writing many small words in to a single word, splitting long words to halves without including a hyphen between them, writing with left hand wh..
Hand Shadows to Be Thrown upon the Wall
by Henry BursillHand Shadows to Be Thrown upon the Wall is a book on Shadowgraphy by Henry Bursill. Shadowgraphy often called as ombromanie is a performance art in which a story or images are narrated using hands to produce shadows. This art once popular had started to decline with the invention of cinema and television to become a major entertainment for..
The Dance (by An Antiquary)
by AnonymousThe dance is a book which explores the historical evolution of dance from its birth to the development in various kingdoms and culture. Exclusive chapters describes this art form in many antique cultures with illustrative pictures including Egyptian dancing, Greek Dancing, South Italian and Roman Dancing, Early English and Mediaeval Dancing t..
A Text-Book of the History of Painting
by John Charles Van DykeHistory of Painting is a historical exploration of the art written by John Charles Van Dyke, an American art historian, remembered for his guide books and historical accounts such as How to Judge a Picture, Art for Art's Sake, Nature for its Own Sake, Studies in Pictures, and The Mountain. History of Painting is a historical account of the oldes..
The Mentor - American Miniature Painters
by Elizabeth LounsberyThe Mentor - American Miniature Painters is an attempt to narrate the most popular miniature painters of America. While this is not a biographical work, however incidents in their life history is narrated which related to Portrait painting. This work is written by an American author and art critic Elizabeth Lounsbery. This book narrates six Amer..