Artist's Techniques in Golden Age Spain: Six Treatises in Translation

by Zahara Veliz and Artists Techniques in Golden

This collection of translated passages on painting techniques is taken from six seventeenth-century treatises written in Spain and Portugal by Nunes, Corducho, Pacheco, Hidalgo and Velasco. These technical writings reveal invaluable information about the artists' painting methods, providing both art historians and conservators with a firmer base for dealing with practical and theoretical problems related to the study and conservation of Spanish baroque...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521320070
• ISBN13: 9780521320078
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.3"