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INTRODUCTION GIOTTO DI BONDONE How Giotto became the student of Cimabue CENNINO CENNINI Basic requirements for becoming an artist How the art of painting should be learned One should continually draw from nature "What are natural colors, and how to grind black" How to color a dead man HUBERT VAN EYCK JAN VAN EYCK The discovery of painting with oil The Ghent Altarpiece FRA GIOVANNI ANGELICO DA FIESOLE On his way of painting PAOLO UCELLO A critique with regard to falsifying nature LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI On colors On the three parts that make up painting PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA On perspective "Heads and capitals, bases, and other objects" SANDRO BOTTICELLI Conflicts with Church ideology A period of disruption LEONARDO DA VINCI What painting is concerned with The young student of painting Of painting and its divisions / Division of the figure Of drawing from nature / A precept for the painter A note on anatomy A precept on balance A precept for avoiding a bad choice in the style of figures A precept in painting / Advice to painters Of backgrounds Of verdigris How to paint a picture that will last almost forever In what part a color will appear in its greatest beauty Colors in regard to light and shade How to represent the wind The brilliance of a landscape How to make an imaginary animal appear natural A precept for painters VITTORE CARPACCIO Ridolfi on Carpaccio's painting HIERONYMUS BOSCH On his method of painting ALBRECHT DÜRER About painting / About perspective Some elaborations on perspective From the Third of the Four Books on Human Proportions Correspondence with Jacob Heller MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI On the painting of the Sistine Chapel On painting / Three letters TITIAN VECELLIO On painting Ridolfi on Titian GIORGIONE (CASTELFRANCO VENETO) Ridolfi on Giorgione Why painting is superior to sculpture RAPHAEL SANZIO On his education as a painter "HANS HOLBEIN, THE YOUNGER" At the court of King Henry VIII The portrait of Henry VIII GIORGIO VASARI On foreshortening On coloring Painting in tempera / Painting on canvas JACOPO ROBUSTI TINTORETTO On painting Ridolfi on Tintoretto PAOLO VERONESE The trial of Paolo Veronese "PETER BRUEGEL, THE ELDER" How Bruegel went on trips among the peasants GIONVANNI PAOLO LOMAZZO Of the divisions of painting EL GRECO (DOMENICO THEOTOCOPOULOS) On his way of painting His manner of living FRANCISCO PACHEO On painting PETER PAUL RUBENS Five letters FRANS HALS An analysis of his art NICOLAS POUSSIN From a letter to M. de Chambray From various letters About the limits of drawing and of color On the idea of beauty CARLO RIDOLFI Two major abuses / On painters A definition of painting SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK On the use of certain colors DIEGO VELAZQUEZ Kitchen scenes and other scenes of home life Life studies CLAUDE LORRAIN Constable on Lorrain's landscapes REMBRANDT VAN RIJN Letter to Huygens Sandrart on Rembrandt JACOB VAN RUISDAEL Why Ruisdael is a unique landscape painter JAN VERMEER Acceptance into the Guild of St. Luke His wife's petition ANTOINE WATTEAU Letters to M. de Julienne WILLIAM HOGRATH Of coloring JEAN BAPTISTE CHARDIN On the difficulties of becoming a painter SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS On the study of painting "The importance of "studies" JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY From a letter to his wife FRANCISCO GOYA A letter to Don Miguel Cayetano Soler JACQUES LOUIS DAVID Letter to Citizen Denon WILLIAM BLAKE An address to the public JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER On Flemish landscape painting Letter to Mrs. Calcott JOHN CONSTABLE Art must change with the ages JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES Extracts from four letters JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT The painter's reputation I work on all parts of my painting at once The start of a painting / Color and tones The luminous point Nature through the eyes of a child EUG

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Book category Books in English The arts Art forms Painting & paintings

• Full title: Painters on Painting
• Author: Eric Protter
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780486299419
• ISBN: 0486299414
• ID: 02564901
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Weight: 392 g
• Dimensions: 141 × 215 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. April 1998

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