Focussing on different periods and works, the articles in this book illuminate the role that the study of painting techniques and materials can have within art

This prize-winning book offers the only comprehensive discussion available on materials, techniques, and condition issues in Western easel paintings from mediev

This collection of articles concentrates on painting techniques, materials, and studio practice demonstrating their importance; and presents global as well as h

In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyzes the origins, history and logic of still life, one of t

Which of us, in the presence of a painting, has not felt that we lack the keys to decipher it? We feel an emotional response, but the work still seems to evade