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Book The Varnish and the Glaze

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marjolijn Bol
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2023-05-03
  • ISBN : 022682036X
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book The Varnish and the Glaze written by Marjolijn Bol and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Both medieval panel painters and those working in the fifteenth century created works that evoke the glow of precious stones, the sheen of polished gold and silver, and the colorful radiance of stained glass. Yet their approach to rendering these materials is markedly different. Marjolijn Bol explores some of the reasons behind this radical transformation by telling the history of the two oil painting techniques used to depict everything that glistens and glows-the varnish and the glaze. For more than a century after his death, the fifteenth century painter Jan van Eyck was widely credited with the invention of varnish and oil paint, on account of his unique visual realism. This was a myth, however, and after it was revealed as such, the remarkable verisimilitude of his work was attributed instead to a new translucent painting technique, a technique the artist could have only innovated with oil paint already at his disposal: the glaze. Today, most theories about how Van Eyck achieved his visual realism revolve around this idea: that he was the first to discover or refine the glazing technique. Bol, however, argues that, rather than being a fifteenth-century refinement, varnishing and glazing began centuries before and, moreover, that these two techniques were not only explored by painters but were developed by a variety of artisans as part of the medieval material culture of splendor. Artisans embellished metalwork and wood with varnishes and glazes to imitate gems and enamel; infused rock crystal with oil, resin, and colorants to imitate more precious minerals; and oiled parchment to transform it into the appearance of green glass. Likewise, medieval panel painters used varnishes and glazes to create the look of water, silk, and more. What's more, Bol shows how the explorations of materials and their optical properties by these artists stimulated natural philosophers to come up with theories about transparent and translucent materials produced by nature"--

Book Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies  Toronto  Canada  Roc Z  Manuscript microfilm catalogue  authors A Z

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Book National Union Catalog

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Book The Lost Strasbourg St  John s Manuscript A94

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Book The National Union Catalogs  1963

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Book Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library  the Fogg Art Museum

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Book Union Catalog of the Graduate Theological Union

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Book Catalogue

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  • Author : Warburg Institute. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 848 pages

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Book Strassburger Manuskript

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  • Author : Viola Borradaile
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 166 pages

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Book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art  New York  Supplement

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Book Dictionary Catalog of the Art and Architecture Division

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Art and Architecture Division written by New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative  1950 1977

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Book Strassburger Manuskript

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