Pigment Analysis in Paintings: Titian, Velazquez, Rembrandt
I always enjoy have some idea of the kinds of pigments used to create a certain color, especially if multiple layers are involved. Here is a website I stumbled upon that has some nice presentations on this very topic...
Great Interactive Website for a Rubens Show
I hope they will keep this up even after the show ends:
Rubens:…
Rubens:…
Track the Lives of the Old Masters
There is a very clever new website called eVasari: you can trace…
Stack Process White Lead: Historical Method of Manufacture
Natural Pigments / George O'Hanlon gives a great history lesson on stack lead and illustrates how it is made.
pLog Pith XVI
You follow rules to go somewhere.
You break rules to go somewhere else.
You ignore rules to go nowhere.
You break rules to go somewhere else.
You ignore rules to go nowhere.
pLog Pith XV
We need to be reminded: there is no beauty without rules and…
The National Gallery Technical Bulletin: Titian after 1540
This special edition is dedicated to the study of Titian’s technique and style after 1540.
The Palette of Gilbert Stuart
From the Natural Pigments website...
The Providence of Fundamentals – Learning to Draw Before You Paint Pays Dividends
The Continuity of Light and the Criteria to Capture It: A Review of the Workshop with Charles Weed
“J. M. W. Turner and other English artists of his generation relied on the development of innovative gels. “
"To paint quickly while creating exceptional texture and volume effects, J. M. W. Turner and other English artists of his generation relied on the development of innovative gels."
The Pigment Compendium on Google Books
If you are doing research on unfamiliar names of pigments, then…
“Flesh Spheres”
In January of 2014 I made my second trip to visit Odd in Norway.…
The National Gallery Technical Bulletin: Sir Joshua Reynolds
This special edition is dedicated to the paintings of Joshua Reynolds in the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection.
Titian’s Secret Revealed
"He was simply better than anyone else."
“Painter’s Palettes from Historical Writings”
A just-discovered great new resource by Patricia Railing.
A Poem from 1762
—The diſtinguish'd part of Men
With Compaſs, Pencil, sword,…
With Compaſs, Pencil, sword,…
A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings Online
For those familiar with Ernst van de Wetering's Rembrandt - The…
Caravaggio’s Contarrelli Chapel in High-Res and Head-On
If you visit the Contarelli Chapel in Rome's San Luigi dei Francesi,…
“Aesthetics Have Nothing to Do with It.”
Nowadays the charlatans say it straight to your face.
From Odd Nerdrum to Igor Stravinsky and a Favorite Quote on the Creative Process
I have a recent habit of saving a variety of essays, forums…
“The Four Techniques for Illusion and Volume”
For those out there like myself interested in technical art history,…
Rubens: How to Price a Painting
For one evaluates pictures differently from tapestries. The latter…
Seeing is Believing: Caravaggio’s Conversion of Saul, Formal Analysis and Critical Thinking
I teach a 100 level on-site Art History class for The American…
Is Burnt Umber Evil?
Some time back in 2012 I read Virgil Elliot's Traditional Oil…
pLog Pith XIV
Dogma is the illusion of power.
Craft is the power to create…
Craft is the power to create…
Illustration vs. Painting
Decades ago this would often come up in discussion with Maestro:…
Exhibit A in the Decline and Fall of the “Art Elite”
When Craft and Quality are smothered by Dogma: Kate Middleton's…
pLog Pith XIII
Religion requires the suspension of Reason.
Little Good is…
Little Good is…
Further Notes on “Netherland”
While speaking with the Maestro earlier tonight on Skype we spent…
Notes on Copying Velázquez in the National Gallery
Notes on the notes: this post is long overdue! My glorious…
Enthrone Reason
Modes of Vision and Hybrid Images
Fascinating insights into "human visual recognition systems"…
pLog Pith XII
Where there is Dogma, there is a Devil.
—TJA
—TJA
The Anthropologically Possible
500 pages in 3 days is possible (when on vacation). To me,…
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