Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
The Art of Colour
Author: Kelly Grovier
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500778337
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Did you know that the ultramarine that shimmers at the centre of Vermeers Milkmaid connects that masterpiece with 6th-century Zoroastrian paintings found on the walls of cave temples in Bamiyan, Afghanistan? Or that the surging waves that crest and curl in Hokusais perilous Great Wave off Kanagawa owe their absorbing blue lustre to an alchemist who was born in Frankensteins Castle in 1673? And were the Pre-Raphaelites really obsessed with a murky brown hue derived from the pulverized remains of ancient mummies? (Spoiler: they were.) Invented by prehistoric cave-dwellers and medieval conjurers, cunning conmen and savvy scientists, the colours of art tell a riveting tale all their own. Over ten scintillating chapters, acclaimed author Kelly Grovier helps bring that tale vividly to life, revealing the astonishing backstories of the pigments that define the greatest works in the history of art. Interwoven between these chapters is a series of features focusing on key moments in the evolution of colour theory from the revelations of the Enlightenment to the radicalism of the Bauhaus while reproductions of carefully selected artworks help illuminate the narratives twists and turns. The history of colour is an epic saga of human ingenuity and insatiable desire. Read this book and you will never look at a work of art in quite the same way.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500778337
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Did you know that the ultramarine that shimmers at the centre of Vermeers Milkmaid connects that masterpiece with 6th-century Zoroastrian paintings found on the walls of cave temples in Bamiyan, Afghanistan? Or that the surging waves that crest and curl in Hokusais perilous Great Wave off Kanagawa owe their absorbing blue lustre to an alchemist who was born in Frankensteins Castle in 1673? And were the Pre-Raphaelites really obsessed with a murky brown hue derived from the pulverized remains of ancient mummies? (Spoiler: they were.) Invented by prehistoric cave-dwellers and medieval conjurers, cunning conmen and savvy scientists, the colours of art tell a riveting tale all their own. Over ten scintillating chapters, acclaimed author Kelly Grovier helps bring that tale vividly to life, revealing the astonishing backstories of the pigments that define the greatest works in the history of art. Interwoven between these chapters is a series of features focusing on key moments in the evolution of colour theory from the revelations of the Enlightenment to the radicalism of the Bauhaus while reproductions of carefully selected artworks help illuminate the narratives twists and turns. The history of colour is an epic saga of human ingenuity and insatiable desire. Read this book and you will never look at a work of art in quite the same way.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Annual Report for the Year (with Appendices).
Author: Great Britain Dept. of Science and Art
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Treatises Upon Metals, Mines and Minerals...
Author: Alvaro Alonso Barba
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metallurgy
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metallurgy
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library
Author: Wellcome Historical Medical Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Journal of Education
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description