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Item Number: 111242
Title: Studying Old Master Paintings: Technology and Practice : The National Gallery Technical Bulletin, 30th Anniversary Conference Postprints
Author: Spring, Marika (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781904982630
Description: London: Archetype, 2011. 30cm., pbk., 301pp., 150 color, 50 b&w illus. Contents: The 'Paliotto' by Guido da Siena from the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena 1 ; Painting on parchment and panel: an exploration of Pacino di Bonaguida's technique 8 ; Technical similarities between mural painting and panel painting in Giovanni da Milano: Guidalotti-Rinuccini chapel, Santa Croce, Florence ; Neroccio's Virgin and Child with Saint Anthony Abbott and Saint Sigismund at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC ; A new examination of Giovanni Bellini's 'Pesaro Altarpiece': new findings and comparisons with other works by Bellini ; Examination of the Uomini Illustri: looking for the origins of the portraits in the Studiolo of the Ducal Palace of Urbino. Part I ; Michelangelo's 'Doni Tondo' investigated with non-invasive analytical techniques ; Granacci in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: aspects of evolving workshop practice ; Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (Musée du Louvre, Paris): new infrared reflectography ; Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks: technique and the context of restoration ; Observations on workshop practice in fifteenth-century Castile: the altarpiece from the cathedral at Ciudad Rodrigo by Fernando Gallego and his workshop ; Studying the 'Graue Passion' by Hans Holbein the Elder ; Albrecht Altdorfer's Crucifixion (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) ; Developments in the underdrawing and painting technique of the sixteenth-century Leiden School, in particular the workshops of Cornelis Engebrechtsz and Lucas van Leyden ; In search of the right colour: colour notations in a late sixteenth-century Dutch painting ; Caravaggio's underdrawing: a 'Quest for the Grail? ; Multiplicity, authorship and chronology: an integrated evaluation of four images of Saint Francis by El Greco ; Between creativity and economy: remarks on the quality of Rubens' panel supports. A study of paintings in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium ; Travels with Rubens' Last Judgement ; The painting techniques of the Rosenborg series 1618-1624 and painting materials supplied to the Danish court painters at the time of King Christian IV ; Nine Muses in the Oranjezaal: the painting methods of Caesar van Everdingen and Jan Lievens confronted ; Material as metaphor: non-conscious thinking in seventeenth-century painting practice ; Murillo's Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda: an introduction to the artist's late painting technique ; About skin: technical examination of paintings by Adriaen van der Werff ; Two 'mechanical' oil paintings after de Loutherbourg: history and technique 186 ; A lost early conversation piece by Thomas Gainsborough ; 'I can see no vermilion in flesh': Sir Joshua Reynolds' portraits of Francis Beckford and Suzanna Beckford, 1755-1756 ; Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret ; Aspects of Christen Købke's painting technique: from drawing via oil sketch to the final painting ; Action speaks louder than words: Thomas Couture as a teacher ; James McNeill Whistler: fluidity, finish and experiment ; A comparative study of Vincent van Gogh's Bedroom series ; The Scream by Edvard Munch: painting techniques and colouring materials ; Wood species in Italian panel paintings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: historical investigation and microscopical wood identification ; The use of blue and green verditer in green colours in the mid-seventeenth-century paintings of the Oranjezaal, The Hague ; The rediscovery of sublimed arsenic sulphide pigments in painting and polychromy: applications of Raman microspectroscopy ; In quest of vermilion: production, commerce and use of the pigment in eighteenth-century Spain ; 'The heaviest and the whitest': lead white quality in north western European documentary sources, 1400-1900 ; Lead white from Venice: a whiter shade of pale?.

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