Category: Art
The observant visitor to the great art galleries is astonished and pained to see the large number of pictures of the highest artistic excellence gradually being ruined on account of decomposition as shown by fading, darkening, cracking and peeling of the paint films. This is a...
The observant visitor to the great art galleries is astonished and pained to see the large number of pictures of the highest artistic excellence gradually being ruined on accoun...
2. Part 2Cennini recommends, alternately, the yolk and the white, depending upon the purpose, mixed with the juice of figs. This, evidently, must refer to the sap of the fig tree; for, i...
3. Part 3It is pertinent to say a word about Flake White, because practically all of the Whites used by the Flemish, Dutch, Italian and English Masters was Flake White, and there is no w...
4. Part 4The best example of this is the method in which etchings are framed. You seldom see an etching in anything but a half or three quarter inch flat, dark frame. If an etching were...