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Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Caxton Head Catalogue[s]
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Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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The Mysteryes of Nature, and Art; conteined in foure seuerall Tretises, the first of Water workes, the second of Fyer workes, the third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engrauing, the fourth of divers Experiments ... partly collected, and partly of the Authors peculiar practice, and invention. By J. B. i.e. J. Bate. With woodcuts
Author: John BateThe British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Edward Wright ByrnPublisher:
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Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Pieter Saenredam, the Utrecht Work
Author: Pieter Jansz SaenredamPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Vermeer's Camera
Author: Philip SteadmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780192803023
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Art historians have long speculated on how Vermeer achieved the uncanny mixture of detached precision, compositional repose, and perspective accuracy that have drawn many to describe his work as "photographic." Indeed, many wonder if Vermeer employed a camera obscura, a primitive form of camera, to enhance his realistic effects? In Vermeer's Camera, Philip Steadman traces the development of the camera obscura--first described by Leonaro da Vinci--weighs the arguments that scholars have made for and against Vermeer's use of the camera, and offers a fascinating examination of the paintings themselves and what they alone can tell us of Vermeer's technique. Vermeer left no record of his method and indeed we know almost nothing of the man nor of how he worked. But by a close and illuminating study of the paintings Steadman concludes that Vermeer did use the camera obscura and shows how the inherent defects in this primitive device enabled Vermeer to achieve some remarkable effects--the slight blurring of image, the absence of sharp lines, the peculiar illusion not of closeness but of distance in the domestic scenes. Steadman argues that the use of the camera also explains some previously unexplainable qualities of Vermeer's art, such as the absence of conventional drawing, the pattern of underpainting in areas of pure tone, the pervasive feeling of reticence that suffuses his canvases, and the almost magical sense that Vermeer is painting not objects but light itself. Drawing on a wealth of Vermeer research and displaying an extraordinary sensitivity to the subtleties of the work itself, Philip Steadman offers in Vermeer's Camera a fresh perspective on some of the most enchanting paintings ever created.
The Columbia Magazine
Author: In His Milieu
Author: Amy GolahnyPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789053569337
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Gathered in honor of John Michael Montias (1928–2005), the foremost scholar on Johannes Vermeer and a pioneer in the study of the socioeconomic dimensions of art, the essays in In His Milieu are an essential contribution to the study of the social functions of making, collecting, displaying, and donating art. The nearly forty essays here by—all internationally recognized experts in the fields of art history and the economics of art—are especially revealing about the Renaissance and Baroque eras and present new material on such artists as Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Rubens, and da Vinci.