Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns

by Stacey Sell and Hugo Chapman

A beautiful new history of an evocative and enduring drawing technique From the Middle Ages to the present, master draftsmen have used the technique of metalpoint to create some of the most beautiful and technically accomplished drawings in the history of art. Drawing in Silver and Gold examines the history of this evocative medium, in which a metal stylus is used on a specially prepared surface to create lines of astonishing delicacy. This beautifully...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691166129
• ISBN13: 9780691166124
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.8" x 11.2"