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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...
April 20, 2018/by tjaGreat Interactive Website for a Rubens Show
I hope they will keep this up even after the show ends:
Rubens:…
March 11, 2018/by tjaRubens:…
Track the Lives of the Old Masters
There is a very clever new website called eVasari: you can trace…
January 30, 2018/by tjaStack 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.
December 17, 2017/by tjapLog Pith XVI
You follow rules to go somewhere.
You break rules to go somewhere else.
You ignore rules to go nowhere.
November 25, 2017/by tjaYou 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…
September 10, 2017/by tjaThe National Gallery Technical Bulletin: Titian after 1540
This special edition is dedicated to the study of Titian’s technique and style after 1540.
September 1, 2017/by tjaThe Palette of Gilbert Stuart
From the Natural Pigments website...
June 7, 2017/by tjaThe Providence of Fundamentals – Learning to Draw Before You Paint Pays Dividends
June 3, 2017/by tjaThe Continuity of Light and the Criteria to Capture It: A Review of the Workshop with Charles Weed
June 3, 2017/by tja“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."
January 26, 2017/by tjaThe Pigment Compendium on Google Books
If you are doing research on unfamiliar names of pigments, then…
October 24, 2016/by tja“Flesh Spheres”
In January of 2014 I made my second trip to visit Odd in Norway.…
October 16, 2016/by tjaThe 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.
October 10, 2016/by tjaTitian’s Secret Revealed
"He was simply better than anyone else."
October 10, 2016/by tja“Painter’s Palettes from Historical Writings”
A just-discovered great new resource by Patricia Railing.
September 20, 2016/by tjaA Poem from 1762
—The diſtinguish'd part of Men
With Compaſs, Pencil, sword,…
August 12, 2015/by tjaWith Compaſs, Pencil, sword,…
A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings Online
For those familiar with Ernst van de Wetering's Rembrandt - The…
May 12, 2015/by tjaCaravaggio’s Contarrelli Chapel in High-Res and Head-On
If you visit the Contarelli Chapel in Rome's San Luigi dei Francesi,…
January 17, 2015/by tja“Aesthetics Have Nothing to Do with It.”
Nowadays the charlatans say it straight to your face.
November 30, 2014/by tjaFrom 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…
November 29, 2014/by tja“The Four Techniques for Illusion and Volume”
For those out there like myself interested in technical art history,…
October 11, 2014/by tjaRubens: How to Price a Painting
For one evaluates pictures differently from tapestries. The latter…
May 20, 2014/by tjaSeeing 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…
April 17, 2014/by tjaIs Burnt Umber Evil?
Some time back in 2012 I read Virgil Elliot's Traditional Oil…
October 8, 2013/by tjapLog Pith XIV
Dogma is the illusion of power.
Craft is the power to create…
May 9, 2013/by tjaCraft is the power to create…
Illustration vs. Painting
Decades ago this would often come up in discussion with Maestro:…
April 2, 2013/by tjaExhibit A in the Decline and Fall of the “Art Elite”
When Craft and Quality are smothered by Dogma: Kate Middleton's…
January 12, 2013/by tjapLog Pith XIII
Religion requires the suspension of Reason.
Little Good is…
December 31, 2012/by tjaLittle Good is…
Further Notes on “Netherland”
While speaking with the Maestro earlier tonight on Skype we spent…
December 30, 2012/by tjaNotes on Copying Velázquez in the National Gallery
Notes on the notes: this post is long overdue! My glorious…
December 26, 2012/by tjaEnthrone Reason
December 23, 2012/by tjaModes of Vision and Hybrid Images
Fascinating insights into "human visual recognition systems"…
October 31, 2012/by tjapLog Pith XII
Where there is Dogma, there is a Devil.
—TJA
August 19, 2012/by tja—TJA
The Anthropologically Possible
500 pages in 3 days is possible (when on vacation). To me,…
August 19, 2012/by tjaOther Excellent Painting Blogs
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