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BIBLIOGRAPHY:

13TH & 14TH CENTURY ITALIAN PAINTING TECHNIQUES
NORTHERN LIGHT STUDIO

Phoebe Dent Weil
October 2002

  • Bomford, David, Jill Dunkerton, Dillian Gordon, and Ashok Roy, Art in the Making: Italian Painting before 1400 (London:National Gallery Publications) 1989.
  • Bomford, David, ed., Art in the Making: Underdrawings in Renaissance Paintings exh. cat. (London:National Gallery Co.) 2002.
  • Cennini, Cennino d'Andrea, Il Libro dell'Arte, c. 1400, F. Brunello, ed. (Vicenza:Neri Pozza Editore) 1982, 1998.
  • Cennini, Cennino d'Andrea, The Craftsman's Handbook: "Il Libro dell'Arte", tr Daniel V. Thompson, Jr. (New York:Dover) 1933; 1960.
  • Clarke, Mark, The Art of All Colors (London:Archetype) 2001.
  • Dunkerton, Jill, S. Foister, D. Gordon, N. Penny, Giotto to Durer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery, (New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press) 1991.
  • “Mappae Clavicula: A Little Key to the World of Medieval Techniques”, ed. C.S. Smith and J.G. Hawthorne, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (n.s.) 64(4).
  • Theophilus’ On Diverse Arts, ed. J.G. Hawthorne and C.S. Smith (c. A.D. 1100) (NY:Dover) 1963, 1979.
  • Federspiel, Beate, "Questions about Medieval Gesso Grounds", Preprints: Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 26-29 June 1995, Getty Conservation Institute, pp. 58-64.
  • Thompson, Daniel V., Jr., The Practice of Tempera Painting, (New York:Dover) 1936, 1962.
  • ______, The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting (New York:Dover} 1936; 1956.

 Further:

  • Albus, Anita, The Art of Arts: Rediscovering Painting (NY:Alfred A. Knopf) 2000.
  • Desloge, Nora W., and Laura L. Meyer, Italian Paintings and Sculpture, The St. Louis Art Museum Winter1988 Bulletin, New Series, vol. XIX , number 1.
  • Feller, Robert L. (vol.1) 1986; Ashok Roy (vol. 2) 1993; and Elizabeth West Fitzhugh (vol. 3) 1997, Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of their History and Characteristics.
  • Harley, Rosamond, Artists' Pigments c. 1600-1835: a study in English Documentary Sources, 2nd ed. (London: Butterworth Scientific) 1982.
  • MacTaggart, Peter and Ann, Practical Gilding (Somerset, UK:Mac&Me Ltd.) 1984.
  • Sultan, Altoon, The Luminous Brush: Painting with Egg Tempera (New York:Watson- Guptill) 1999.
  • Watrous, James, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press) 1957.
  • The Iron Gall Ink Corrosion Website: http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink/index.html