WRITTEN IN FRENCH
This richly illustrated book reveals the secrets of great paintings: how materials, techniques and ideas have evolved over the centuries, inspiring artists and giving them the means to create their most famous works.
From the use of the first pigments to the linear perspective of the ...
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WRITTEN IN FRENCH
This richly illustrated book reveals the secrets of great paintings: how materials, techniques and ideas have evolved over the centuries, inspiring artists and giving them the means to create their most famous works.
From the use of the first pigments to the linear perspective of the Renaissance, the influence of photography, impressionism and the advent of modern art, this book follows every step in the evolution of painting over the last 25,000 years. Details, pigments, chromatic ranges, technical or restoration photographs punctuate the whole history of painting.
Understand the manufacture of the material, the preparation of the colours.
To analyse composition techniques and the secrets of creation.
To discover the details of fabrics, flesh or ornaments.
French
360 pages
Flammarion Publishing
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