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A Very Proper Treatise: Specialist Knowledge for a Non-Specialist Public

British Art Studies, 2020
This paper discusses the authorship and audience of England’s first printed recipe book which is entirely dedicated to the practice of limning. A number of older sources show congruency with A Very Proper Treatise (1573), both in manuscript and print ...
Annemie Leemans
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Visualizing the Fight Book Tradition

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2018
The Thun-Hohenstein album, long-known as the Thun’sche Skizzenbuch, is a bound collection of 112 drawings that visualize armoured figures at rest and in combat, as well as empty armours arrayed in pieces.
Chassica Kirchhoff
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Rediscovered and Reconsidered: Jan Gossart’s Virgin and Child with a Book

Bulletin de l’Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique
Long hidden away in a private collection in Prague, Jan Gossart’s Virgin and Child with a Book has recently reappeared. This article confirms the attribution to Gossart and dates the painting to around 1520.
Maryan Ainsworth
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Ormiańska saga malarska

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ARMENIAN PAINTING SAGA. ANTONI AND KAJETAN STEFANOWICZ The article presents historical and artistic analysis concerning the works of two Polish painters of the Armenian origin, from the Stefanowicz family: Antoni (1858-1929) and Kajetan (1886-1920 ...
Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska
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„Книга художника” как интермедиальный дискурс

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2012
The article is devoted to an analysis of various representations of the “Artist’s book” genre in modern Russian and world art. These representationsfunction within the framework of the paradigm of art that refers to issues such as inter- and multimedia,
Grażyna Bobilewicz
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An Unknown Renaissance Portrait of Tagliacozzi (1545–1599), the Founder of Plastic Surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2019
Summary:. This article examines a recently discovered painting of a young scholar holding a reconstructed nose. Experts in ancient paintings have confirmed that the portrait is an authentic painting of the School of Bologna in Italy, from the last ...
Sophie Ménard, BSc
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The translation of Serge Poliakoff’s Enluminures by Jean Chuzeville

Literatūra (Vilnius)
The book Enluminures is a facsimile of a ‘notebook’ illustrated with paintings of the abstract artist Serge Poliakoff. It was published by the Swiss publisher Erker-Verlag in 1972. The book contains twenty-seven photolithographs and handwritten ‘verses’
Natalia Gamalova
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Why I Believe People Need Painting By Numbers

Numeracy, 2018
Jason Makansi. 2016. Painting By Numbers: How to Sharpen Your BS Detector and Smoke Out the Experts (Tucson AZ: Layla Dog Press). 196 pp. ISBN 978-0998425900.
Jason Makansi
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'Substituting an approach to historical evidence for the vagueness of speculation’: Charles Lock Eastlake and Johann David Passavant’s contribution to the professionalization of art-historical study through source-based research [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2018
During Charles Eastlake’s directorship of the National Gallery (1855-65), the collection was transformed into a visual survey of the history of western European painting.
Susanna Avery-Quash, Corina Meyer
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Linguistic Theories and Intellectual History in Michael Baxandall’s Giotto and the Orators [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2009
This essay examines some theoretical and methodological aspects of Michael Baxandall’s book Giotto and the Orators. Humanist observers of painting in Italy and the discovery of pictorial composition of 1971.
Allan Langdale
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