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Techniques of Traditional Icon Painting
Author: Gilles Weissmann
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2012-10-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1844487946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A detailed and practical guide focusing on the traditional methods of icon painting and its rich history. With all you would ever want to know, from the materials you need and how to prepare a panel to adding inscriptions and finishing off. Part of the icons symbolism is transmitted in the techniques used to create it and this is explored throughout, with in depth information, step-by-step demonstrations, invaluable advice and many superb examples of finished icon paintings.
A History of Icon Painting
A history of Icon painting
Techniques of Icon and Wall Painting
Author: Aidan Hart
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780852442159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the most comprehensive book to date on the techniques of icon and wall painting. Illustrated with over 450 colour photos and 180 drawings, it will be a source of pleasure and inspiration for the general reader as well as for the practising icon painter. The book is more than just a technical manual; it sets artistic practice in the context of the Church's spirituality and liturgy, with chapters on the theology and history of the icon, the role and symbolism of the iconostasis, and the principles behind the positioning of wall paintings within churches. The wealth of information in this book makes it an indispensable reference text, not only for iconographers but also for any painter working in egg tempera, fresco or secco. All the necessary processes are covered, including the making gessoing of wooden panels, gilding, preparing pigments, lime plastering and fresco, the various techniques for painting in tempera, right through to photographing the finished artwork. -- from dust jacket.
The Technique of Icon Painting
Author: Guillem Ramos-Poqui
Publisher: Search PressLtd
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780855326876
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the history, meaning and techniques of icon paintings
Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting
Author: Jaroslav Folda
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-07-28
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 1107010233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jaroslav Folda traces the appropriation of the Byzantine Virgin and Child Hodegetria icon by thirteenth-century Crusader and central Italian painters and explores its transformation by the introduction of chrysography on the figure of the Virgin in the Crusader Levant and in Italy.
The Avant-garde Icon
Author: Andrew Spira
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Is there a relationship between Russian icons and Russian avant-garde art? Andrew Soira tackles this question and comes to some surprising conclusions. He demonstrates how icons underpin the development of 19th- and 20-th century Russian art.
Icon Painting
Author: John Taylor
Publisher: Smithmark Pub
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780831748135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Critically describes and historically analyzes icon paintings of Asia, Eastern Europe, and Russia, discussing their symbolic and secular significance and reproducing dozens of examples dating from the third to the sixteenth century
The sensual icon
Author: Bissera V
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published:
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0271035846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearances expressed in poetry, descriptions of art, and liturgical performance"--Provided by publisher.
