Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting: Original Texts with English Translations

by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield

Since its original publication in 1849, Mrs. Merrifield's two-volume work on the technology of medieval and Renaissance oil painting has been one of the foremost among a scarce handful of valued reference books dealing with the subject. The work reprints (with the original language version and its English translation on facing pages) manuscript collections on painting and related arts dating roughly from the twelfth through seventeenth centuries.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486404404
• ISBN13: 9780486404400
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 1280 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"