The Craft of Old-Master Drawings

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A comprehensive study of the techniques of drawing, this is both a historical work, covering the period from the late Middle Ages to the present, and a useful manual for recent artists. It presents the old masters’ techniques by the use of a thorough study of the historical and written evidence of the tools and materials used.  The writer also includes a series of workshop procedures he has developed with which the recent artist may produce the equivalents of the techniques of earlier draughtsmen.  This book contains a body of knowledge that is very important to students of art history, curators, collectors and artists, and is a significant addition to the literature on drawing.
    Along with his scholarly investigation of earlier practices, the writer identifies materials and processes used by such important artists as Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Romney, Picasso, Michelangelo, Watteau, Holbein, Tiepolo, and Delacroix.  For the artist interested in reproducing the effects achieved by these and lots of other acknowledged masters, there are full discussions and specific directions concerning the making of inks, styluses, reed and quill pens, fabricated chalks, and instructions for preparing grounds for metalpoint drawings.  At each and every step, the discussion is supplemented with illustrations from laboratory experiments and from drawings by both old and recent artists.  Of the more than sixty illustrations included, thirty-six are reproductions of master works, and a number of the others there are microphotographic enlargements of detail showing the differences in density and texture produced by quite a lot of tools on different papers or grounds.  Thus, as a collection of master drawings, the book is worthy of the art lover’s library; as a technical study, it is an indispensable aid to the art student and practicing artist.

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