E. V. Bibliography:
Traditional Painting Technique

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primary sources

ANGEL, Philips, Lof der Schilder-konst (Leiden) 1642. [facsimile ed., Utrecht, 1969)

BERGER, Ernst, Quellen fur Maltechnik wahrend der Renaissance und deren Folgezeit, Munich, 1901, reprint 1973. Contains de Mayerne MS, pp.99-364.

CENNINO d'Andrea, Cennini, Il Libro dell Arte, C. 1400, tr. Daniel V. Thompson, Jr., The Craftsman’s Handbook; 'II Libro dell 'Arte', (New York:Dover) 1933, 1960.

HOOGSTRATEN, Samuel van (1627-1678), Inleyding tot de hooge Schoole der Schilderkonst... (Introduction to the higher education of the art of painting) Rotterdam, 1678.

LAIRESSE, Gerard de, Het groot Schilderboek, 2 vols., Amsterdam 1707; English translation 1738.

MAYERNE T.T. de, Pictoria, Sculptoria et quae subalternum Artium, 1620, ed.

GRAAF VAN DE, J. A. : Het De Mayerne Manuscript als Bron Voor de Schildertechnick van de Barok, Mijdrecht, 1958.

MERRIFIELD, M.P., Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting, Original Texts with English Translations, 2 vols. Bound as one (Mineola, NY:Dover) 1849, 1967, 1999.

VAN MANDER, Karel, Het Schilder-Boeck, Haarlem, 1604; 2nd ed. Amsterdam 1618.[reprint with introduction and translation, 6 vols., Hessel Miedema, ed., Doornspijk, 1994-99]

VASARI, Oiorgio, Vasari on Technique, tr. L. Maclehose, ed. Prof. G. Baldwin-Brown (New York:Dover) 1907, 1960.

VELIZ, Zahira, Artists' Techniques in Golden Age Spain...Six treatises in translation, Cambridge, 1986.

secondary sources

BOK, Martin Jan, "The Artist's Working Method," in Jan Steen, Painter and Storyteller [exh. Cat., National Gallery of Art and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam] (Washington and Amsterdam, 1996) 86-87.

BOERSMA, Annetje, "Dou's Painting Technique: An Examination of Two Paintings", Gerrit Dou, Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., ed., exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington (New Haven:Yale University Press) 2000, pp.54-63.

BOMFORD David, Christopher Brown and Ashok Roy, Art in the Making:Rembrandt (London:National Gallery) 1 988.[Glossary pp.144-147; Bibliographical Appendix on Training of Artists and Practice of Painting, pp.148-149; Select Bibliography, 150-153; Technical Literature, pp.154-155.

BRUSATI, Celeste, Artifice and illusion: The Art and Writing of Samuel van Hoogstraten (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press) 1995.

EASTLAKE, C.L., Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters, 2 vols., London 1847, reprint ,New York, 1960

FELLER, Robert L. (vol.1), Ashok Roy, (vol.2), and Elizabeth West Fitzhugh (vol.3), eds., Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of their History and Characteristics, 3 vols. (vol.1, Cambridge and Washington:Cambridge University Press and National Gallery of Art) 1986; (vol.2, Washington and New York:National Gallery of Art and Oxford University Press) 1993; (vol.3, Washington and New York:National Gallery of Art and Oxford University Press) 1997.

GETTENSs, Rutherford J. and George L. Stout, Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopaedia (New York:Dover) 1942, 1966

GROEN, Karen and Ella Hendriks, "Frans Hals: Technical Examination," in S. Slive, ed. Frans Hals, [exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Royal Academy, Frans Halsmuseum,] (Washington, London and Haarlem, 1989-90)109-127.

HARLEY, Rosamund, Artists' Pigments c. 1600-1835: a study in English documentary sources, 2nd ed., (London:Bufferworth Scientific) 1982.

JANSON, Jonathan, How to Paint Your Own Vermeer: Recapturing Materials and Methods of a Seventeenth-Century Master, USA, 2006

KIRBY, Jo, "The Painter's Trade in the Seventeenth Century: Theory and Practice", pp.5-49, National Gallery Technical Bulletin, vol 20, 1999, National Gallery Publications, London, Yale University Press.

KOESTER, Olaf, Illusions: Gijsbrechts, Royal Master of Deception, with contributions by Celeste Brusati, Jorgen Hein, Gunter Herzog, Ekkehard Mai, Mette Bjarnhof, and Lone Bogh, exhibition catalogue (Copenhagen:Statens Museum for Kunst) 1999. -see especially Mette Bjamhof and Lone Bogh, "Restoration History and Study of Painting Technique, pp.287-305.

SCHENDEL, A.F.E. van, 'Manufacture of vermilion in 17th century Amsterdam: the Pekstok papers", Studies in Conservation, 17, 1972, pp.70-82. [also contains recipes for Spanish green (verdigris) and schuytgeel (a yellow lake pigment.) [Peckstock Papers, Municipal Archives, Amsterdam, No. N-09-23]

TALLEY, Mansfield Kirby, Portrait Painting in England: studies in the technical literature before 1700, published privately by the Paul Mellon Centre, London 1981. [discussion of de Mayerne MS in chapter 6]

VAN HOUT, Nico, "Meaning and Development of the Ground-layer in Seventeenth Century Painting", Looking Through Paintings, the Study of Painting Techniques and Materials in Support of Art Historical Research, Erma Hermens, ed., (Leiden:deProm and Archetype) 1998, pp.199-225.

WALLERT, Arie, ed., Still Lifts: Techniques and Style: An Examination of paintings from the Rjjksmuseum, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Zwolle:Waanders Publishers) 1999.

WETERING, Ernst van de, Rembrandt The Painter at Work (Amsterdam:Amsterdam University Press) 1997.

WHITE, Raymond and Jo Kirby, "Rembrandt and his Circle: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paint Media Re-Examined", National Gallery Technical Bulletin, vol.15 (London:National Gallery Publications) 1994, pp.64-78.