{"product_id":"the-craftsmans-handbook-9780486200545","title":"The Craftsman's Handbook","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Cennino Cennini\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Renaissance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is D. V. Thompson's definitive English translation of \u003ci\u003eIl Libro dell'Arte, \u003c\/i\u003e an intriguing guide to methods of painting, written in fifteenth-century Florence. Embodying the secrets and techniques of the great masters, it served as an art student's introduction to the ways of his craft.\u003cbr\u003eAnyone who has ever looked at a medieval painting and marveled at the brilliance of color and quality of surface that have endured for 500 years should find this fascinating reading. It describes such lost arts as gilding stone, making mosaics of crushed eggshell, fashioning saints' diadems, coloring parchment, making goat glue, and regulating your life in the interests of decorum--which meant shunning women, the greatest cause of unsteady hands in artists. You are told how to make green drapery, black for monks' robes, trees and plants, oils, beards in fresco, and the proper proportions of a man's body. (\"I will not tell you about the irrational animals because you will never discover any system of proportion in them.\") So practical are the details that readers might be tempted to experiment with the methods given here for their own amusement and curiosity.\u003cbr\u003eToday artists are no longer interested in specific directions on keeping miniver tails from becoming moth-eaten. \u003ci\u003eThe Craftsman's Handbook, \u003c\/i\u003e in which these are ordinary parts of the artist's work, appears quaint and naïve to us. And that is much of its charm. But when we remember the magnificent mosaics, paintings, and frescoes these methods produced, the book takes on an even greater value as a touchstone to another age.\u003cbr\u003e\"Recommended to the student of art.\"--\u003ci\u003eCraft Horizons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Obviously of great merit.\"--\u003ci\u003eArt Material Trade News.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Delightful flavor.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eRecommended in Harvard List of Great Books on Art, Shaw's List of Books for College Libraries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45117232152727,"sku":"9780486200545","price":1084.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780486200545.webp?v=1769206432","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-craftsmans-handbook-9780486200545","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}