Artistic anatomy of animals From Introduction: A few lines will suffice to explain why we have compiled the present volume, to what wants it responds, and what its sphere of use may possibly embrace. In our teaching of plastic anatomy, especially a…
A concise history of painting The art of each country occupies a separate book, most of the books being again divided into chapters devoted to different schools and periods. The pictures mentioned as examples of each master's work are chosen fro…
A textbook of the history of painting A textbook of the history of painting An interesting book that illustrates the painting in all civilizations with illustrations Excerpt: The object of this series of textbooks is to provide concise teachable his…
Pictorial composition and the critical judgment of pictures From the introduction: This volume is addressed to three classes of readers; to the layman, to the amateur photographer, and to the professional artist. To the latter, it speaks more in the…
Notes on the science of picture-making On looking over these old lectures I notice many details which I should now be inclined to alter or to express differently. During the last decade the resources of painting, like those of politics, have been t…
The Mind of the artist thoughts and sayings of painters and sculptors on their art Thoughts and sayings of painters and sculptors on their art," collected and arranged by Mrs Binyon. Preface by Geo. Clausen, R . A. This little volume, it need h…
Sketching and rendering in pencil From introduction; Any readers of pencil points have suggested to us the need for n group of books dealing in a thoroughly practical and helpful way with subjects of interest to architects, draftsmen and students a …
A manual of oil painting The art of painting in oils is a very difficult one, and not the least of its difficulties consists in the great uncertainty that exists as to the proper methods to be pursued. As a rule, the great painters have been too mu…
A grammar of colouring applied to decorative painting and the arts I have therefore introduced new diagrams of the primary, secondary, and tertiary colours, with their numerical equivalents, which will, I trust, render the subject more clear than it…
