Bibliography

Tempting to call this “Books I Wish I had Known about Sooner.”
But then, we should remember: sometimes books don’t find you until you are ready.
Browse at your own risk.

On Art Process, Techniques and Materials

Title	Author	Publisher	Year Published	Type / IBAN	Comments / Book Notes	Date Added / Year Read
A Manual of Oil Painting	Collier, Hon. John		1887	eBook	Thank you iPad! Book Notes	2011 02 18 / 2010 Fall
Arte della Pintura	Pacheco, Francisco		1649			2010 / pending
Classical Drawing Atelier	Aristides, Juliette	New York: Watson-Guptill Publications	2006	Print		2009 12 25 / 2010 Winter
Classical Painting Atelier	Aristides, Juliette	New York: Watson-Guptill Publications	2008	Print	Found in National Gallery during trip to London with Stef and Lina.	2009 05 27 / 2010 Summer
Color and Meaning Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting	Hall, Marcia				Courtesy Graduate Prof. B. Sklarski Reading List… found 12 years later!	2011 10 20 / pending
Color in Turner	Gage, John				Courtesy Graduate Prof. B. Sklarski Reading List… found 12 years later!	2011 10 20 / pending
Discourses on Art	Reynolds, Sir Joshua			Print		2010 / pending
Material and Techniques of Medieval Painting	Thompson, Daniel V.				Courtesy Graduate Prof. B. Sklarski Reading List… found 12 years later!	2011 09 12 / pending
Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters	Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock	New York: Dover Publications, Inc.	2001	Print		2010 / 2009 Summer
Notes on the Science of Picture-Making	C. J. Holmes (Director of the National Gallery and Sometime Slade Professor of Fine Art in the University of Oxford)	London: Cahtto & Windus	1920	eBook	Thank you iPad!	2011 03 18 / 2010 Fall
Oil Painting Techniques and Materials	Speed, Harold	New York: Dover Publications, Inc.	1987	Print		2005 01 01 / 2005 / Summer
On Painting	Alberti, Leon Batista					2010 / pending
The Academy and French Painting in the 19th Century	Boime, Albert				Courtesy Graduate Prof. B. Sklarski Reading List… found 12 years later!	2011 10 20 / pending
The Artist’s Handbook of Materials and Techniques	Mayer, Ralph					2011 09 12 / Long time ago…
The Craft of Master Drawing	Watrous, James				Courtesy Graduate Prof. B. Sklarski Reading List… found 12 years later!	2011 09 12 / pending
The Craftsman’s Handbook: Il Libro dell’Arte	Cennini, Cennino d’Andrea				Courtesy Graduate Prof. B. Sklarski Reading List… found 12 years later!	2011 09 12 / pending
The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting	Max Doerner	San Diego, New York, London: A Harvest Book, Harcourt, Inc.	1984 (First published in 1934)	Paperback		2011, March 18 / 2011 Summer
The Nature of Light and Color in the Open Air	M. Minnaert				Courtesy Graduate Prof. B. Sklarski Reading List… found 12 years later!	2011 10 20 / pending
The Painter’s Methods and Materials	Laurie, A. P.				Courtesy Graduate Prof. B. Sklarski Reading List… found 12 years later!	2011 10 20 / pending
The Practice & Science of Drawing	Speed, Harold	New York: Dover		Print		2006, Nov 1 / 2006 Summer
The Secret of the Old Masters	Abendshein, Albert	New York: D. Appleton and Company	1909	eBook in PDF	Thank you iPad! Book Notes	2010, Nov 14 / 2010 Fall
The Training of the Memory in Art \| The Education of the Artist	De Boisbaudran, Lecoq	London: Macmillan and Co., Limited	1911	eBook in PDF	Read during my stay with Odd in Norway. Many thanks to Charles Weed for telling me about it.	2010, Jan 31 / 2010 Winter
Vasari on Technique	Vasari, Giorgio				Courtesy Graduate Prof. B. Sklarski Reading List… found 12 years later!	2011 10 20 / pending

On Artists, Art and History

Author	Title	Publisher	Comments / Book Notes	Date Added, Year Read
Alpers, Svetlana	The Vexations of Art, Velazquez and Others	London: Yale University Press, 2007
Clark, Kenneth	The Nude
Cooke, George and Busby, T.L.	The Cartoons of Raphael d’Urbino
Farington, Joseph	Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Holland, Tom	Rubicon
King, Ross	Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling	London: Penguin Books Ltd., 2003	Book Notes	2010, January
O’Connell, Robert L	The Ghosts of Cannae – Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic	New York: Random House, 2010	Read at the Lake House Book Notes	2010, August
Parenti, Michael	The Assassination of Julius Caesar	New York: The New Press, 2004

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2 responses to “Bibliography”

John

July 10, 2011

I noticed that Mark Gottsegen’s “Painter’s Handbook” was not on your biblio list.
I found it very helpful and just finished the revised version earlier this year.
tja

July 16, 2011

Hi John,

I’ve not heard of that one. When was it originally printed? In any case, I’ll look for it, thank you!

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