| 13th Century Colour Palettes Contributor(s): Railing, Patricia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0946311250 ISBN-13: 9780946311255 Publisher: Artists Bookworks OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2024 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of June 30, 2024 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Art | Color Theory |
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| Publisher Description: A French collection of recipes for painting on parchment, On Making Colours, by a painter, Peter of St. Audemar, possibly of the Benedictine Abbey of St Bertin at St. Omer in northern France. St. Omer was an active centre of painters and scribes from the end of the 12th century and from it probably came The Aviary / De avibus by Hugo de Fouilloy (c. 1140) in the so-called Gloucester copy which is dated 1277. Plates and illustrations have been included in this handbook, bringing together a treatise and a book which may have derived from the same place, an exceptional event in the history of pigments. Notable is the reference to painting in oil on panel, artists of the French school responsible for the London, Westminster Abbey Retable of 1280, also painted in oil on panel. |
Contributor Bio(s): Railing, Patricia: - Patricia Railing (PhD, University of Paris, Sorbonne, Philosophy of Art) is an art historian specialising in both the Russian Avant-Garde and the history of artists' pigments. She has compiled this collection, Colour Palettes, from treatises, 1st century B.C. to the 19th century, which culminates in the Documentary Dictionary of Historical Pigments. The series is complemented by a website, www.painterspalettes.net. |