Tag: Paintings

Free Download Thomas Mathews, "The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons"
English | ISBN: 1606065092 | 2016 | 256 pages | PDF | 226 MB
Staking out new territory in the history of art, this book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance. While art historians place the origin of icons in the seventh century, Thomas F. Mathews finds strong evidence as early as the second century in the texts of Irenaeus and the Acts of John that describe private Christian worship. In closely studying an obscure set of sixty neglected panel paintings from Egypt in Roman times, the author explains how these paintings of the Egyptian gods offer the missing link in the long history of religious painting. Christian panel paintings and icons are for the first time placed in a continuum with the pagan paintings that preceded them, sharing elements of iconography, technology, and religious usages as votive offerings.

Free Download Easy Watercolor Flowers: 45 Beautiful Paintings for Beginners by Bianca Rosen
English | December 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 9798890030498 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 50.78 MB
Learn the Relaxing Art of Floral Watercolor

Free Download One Week in January: New Paintings for an Old Diary by Carson Ellis
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1797216953 | 80 pages | True EPUB | 54.81 MB
Award-winning, beloved children’s book author and illustrator Carson Ellis makes a stunning adult debut with an illustrated memoir that evocatively captures a specific cultural moment of the early 2000s and in her journey as an artist.

Free Download Conservation of Modern Oil Paintings by Klaas Jan van den Berg, Ilaria Bonaduce, Aviva Burnstock, Bronwyn Ormsby, Mikkel Scharff, Leslie Carlyle, Gunnar Heydenreich, Katrien Keune
English | EPUB (True) | 2020 | 606 Pages | ISBN : 3030192539 | 132.8 MB
Artists’ oil paints have become increasingly complex and diverse in the 20th Century, applied by artists in a variety of ways. This has led to a number of issues that pose increasing difficulties to conservators and collection keepers. A deeper knowledge of the artists’ intent as well as processes associated with material changes in paintings is important to conservation, which is almost always a compromise between material preservation and aesthetics.

Free Download Analytical Chemistry for the Study of Paintings and the Detection of Forgeries by Maria Perla Colombini, Ilaria Degano, Austin Nevin
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 521 Pages | ISBN : 3030868648 | 118.1 MB
Forgeries present a daunting problem to art historians, museums, galleries and curators who face challenges in determining the authenticity of paintings. Recent progress in science has led to the development of new methods for investigating works of art, and can provide new insights into the materials found in paintings. The rise in the value of paintings together with the knowledge and skills of forgers highlights the need to develop reliable scientific procedures to identify fakes. Given the complexity of materials in paintings and the convergence of various disciplines, a methodological approach for nvestigations of paintings is based on art historical, curatorial, aesthetic, technical and scientific evaluation.

Free Download Late Antique Wall Paintings from Porphyreon in the Sidon Hinterland
by Julia M. Burdajewicz
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9042950560 | 585 Pages | True PDF | 44 MB

Free Download Island: Paintings by Tom Curry by Terry Tempest Williams, Carl Little, Tom Curry
English | June 16, 2012 | ISBN: 1608930033 | True EPUB | 80 pages | 12.97 MB

Free Download Iohannis Spatharakis, "Dated Byzantine wall paintings of Crete"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 9080647616 | PDF | pages: 177 | 28.3 mb

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Free Download Conservation and Painting Techniques of Wall Paintings on the Ancient Silk Road by Shigeo Aoki
English | EPUB | 2021 | 330 Pages | ISBN : 9813341602 | 170.2 MB
This book presents recent research on ancient Silk Road wall paintings, providing an up-to-date analysis of their coloring materials and techniques, and of developments in efforts to preserve them.

Free Download Italian Paintings, Venetian School: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Federico Zeri, Elizabeth G. Gardner
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0300193645 | 114 Pages | PDF | 21.7 MB
There are now over 400 Italian paintings in the Metropolitan Museum, 150 of them acquired in the more than thirty years since the Museum first published a catalogue of its Italian works.