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 |
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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 | 2009 12 25 / 2010 Winter | ||
Classical Painting Atelier | Aristides, Juliette | New York: Watson-Guptill Publications | 2008 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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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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