Engravings

Author : Max Schweidler
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892368358
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper written by Max Schweidler and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since its original publication in Germany in 1938, Max Schweidler's Die Instandetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Buchern usw has been recognized as a seminal modern text on the conservation and restoration of works on paper. To address what he saw as a woeful dearth of relevant literature and in order to assist those who have 'set themselves the goal of preserving cultural treasures, ' the noted German restorer composed a thorough technical manual covering a wide range of specific techniques, including detailed instructions on how to execute structural repairs and alterations that, if skilfully done, can be virtually undetectable. By the mid-twentieth century, curators and conservators of graphic arts, discovering a nearly invisible repair in an old master print or drawing, might comment that the object had been 'Schweidlerized.' This volume, based on the authoritative revised German edition of 1949, makes Schweidler's work available in English for the first time, in a meticulously edited and annotated critical edition. The editor's introduction places the work in its historical context and probes the philosophical issues the book raises, while some two hundred annotati

Author : Reynolds Stone
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reynolds Stone written by Reynolds Stone and published by John Murray. This book was released on 1977 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Hogarth
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486317161
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engravings by Hogarth written by William Hogarth and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rake's Progress, Harlot's Progress, Illustrations for Hudibras, Before and After, Beer Street, and Gin Lane, 96 more. Commentary by Sean Shesgreen.

Author : Albrecht Drer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486228517
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints of Albrecht Drer written by Albrecht Drer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1972-06-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of Dürer's works in three mediums are reproduced in this edition. Among them are his most famous works, Knight, Death and Devil; Melencolia I; and St. Jerome in His Study. Also included are portraits of his contemporaries, including Erasmus of Rotterdam and Frederick the Wise, as well as six engravings formerly attributed to Dürer.

Author : James B. Meek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Engraving written by James B. Meek and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mei-Ying Sung
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317314263
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Blake and the Art of Engraving written by Mei-Ying Sung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sung closely examines William Blake’s extant engraved copper plates and arrives at a new interpretation of his working process. Sung suggests that Blake revised and corrected his work more than was previously thought. This belies the Romantic ideal that the acts of conception and execution are simultaneous in the creative process.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holy Bible ... Copiously Illustrated with Plain and Coloured Engravings, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bent's Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings, Works on the Fine Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hans Alexander Mueller
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048613993X
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Woodcuts and Wood Engravings written by Hans Alexander Mueller and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable guide to creating woodcut masterpieces, this volume offers instructions that range from using the simplest strokes to making intricate multicolor print blocks. Easy-to-follow instructions are complemented by 98 illustrations, many in color.

Author : Gallery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The gallery of engravings, ed. by G. N. Wright (C. H. Timperley). Ser. 2, ed. by mrs. Milner written by Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: