MATERIALS

INFORMATION and TECHNICAL RESOURCES

for ARTISTS – Artists’ Treatises and Manuals
NOTE: Refer to this Website for Free e-books:
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Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting. Translated by John R. Spencer. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1966. http://www.noteaccess.com/Texts/Alberti/index.htm

Aristides, Juliette. Lessons in Classical Painting: Essential Techniques from Inside the
Atelier. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2016.

Aristides, Juliette. Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional

Studio Practice. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2008.

Aristides, Juliette. Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional

Studio Practice. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2006.

Aristides, Juliette. Lessons in Classical Drawing: Essential Techniques from Inside

the Atelier. New York: Watson- Guptill Publications, 2011.
Beer, Nicholas. Sight-Size Portraiture. Marlborough: Crowod Press, 2011.
Blockx, Jacques, Peinture a L'huile: Matériaux, Définition Des Couleurs Fixes Et
Conseils Pratiques, Suivis D'une Notice Sur L'ambre Dissous ; Compendium À L'usage
Des Artistes Peintres. Anvers : J.-E. Buschmann, 1926.
https://archive.org/details/peinturealhuile00blocgoog

Broecke, Lara. Cennino Cennini's 'Il Libro dell'Arte': A New English Translation and
Commentary and Italian Transcription. London: Archetype Publications, 2015.

Bucklow, Spike, The Alchemy of Paint: Art Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages.
London: Marion Boyars Publishers, Ltd. 2009.
Carlson, John F. Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting. New York: Dover
Publications, 1973.

Cennini, Cennino. Cennino d'Andrea Cennini’s The Craftsman's Handbook: Il Libro

dell' Arte. Translated by Daniel V. Thompson, Jr. New York: Dover Publications, 1954
[1960] https://archive.org/details/bookartcenninoc00herrgoog
http://www.noteaccess.com/Texts/Cennini/index.htm

Clarke, Mark. Mediaeval Painters’ Materials and Techniques: The Montpelier ‘Liber
Diversarum Arcium’ (c. 1200-1400). London: Archetype Publications, 2011.

Cole, Rex V. The artistic anatomy of trees, their structure & treatment in painting.
London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1920.
https://archive.org/details/artisticanatomyo00cole

Cordoba, Ricardo. Craft Treatises and Handbooks: The Dissemination of Technical
Knowledge in the Middle Ages (De Diversis Artibus). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers,
2013.

De Mayerne, Theodore Turquet. Lost secrets of Flemish painting: Including the first
complete English translation of the De Mayerne Manuscript, B.M. Sloane 2052, edited
by Donald Fels Jr. Alchemist, 2001.

Doerner, Max. The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting: With Notes on the
Techniques of the Old Masters, Revised Edition. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1984.

Elliot, Virgil. Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the
Renaissance to the Present. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2007.

Eastlake, Charles Lock. Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and
Masters, vols. I & II (1847). New York: Dover Publications, 2001.
http://www.noteaccess.com/Texts/Eastlake/index.htm

Gettens, Rutherford J., and George L. Stout. Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopedia.
Reprint; New York: Dover Publications, 2011.

Gottsegen, Mark. Painter's Handbook: Revised and Expanded.
New York: Watson-Guptill, 2006.
https://books.google.com/books?id=o23u0SuRLxsC&pg=PA362&lpg=PA362&dq=g
ottsegen+painting&source=bl&ots=mDcEP0UswK&sig=3gMkSNloKTovZW8uOn6AC
pXkeSg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVkpie3rDPAhVJND4KHY_XDgEQ6AEIXzAO#v
=onepage&q=gottsegen%20painting&f=false

Hale, Gardner. The Technique of Fresco Painting (1933). New York: Dover
Publications, 1966.

Hart, Aidan. Techniques of Icon and Wall Painting, Leominster: Gracewing, 2011.

Hetherington, Paul. The ‘Painter’s Manual’ of Dionysius of Fourna. Torrence,
California: Oakwood Publications, 1989.

Hiler, Hilaire. Notes on the Technique of Painting. New York: Faber & Faber, 1969.
Hiler, Hilaire. The Painter’s Pocketbook of Methods and Materials. Los Angeles:
Research Publishing Company, 1945. https://archive.org/details/painterspo00hile

Hilliard, Nicholas. A More Compendious Discourse Concerning Ye Art of Liming.

Taschenbuch; Verlag: Carcanet Press Ltd., 1992.

Kay, Reed. The Painter's Guide to Studio Methods and Materials. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983.

Kemp, Martin, ed. and Margaret Walker. Leonardo on Painting. An anthology of

writings by Leonardo da Vinci with a selection of documents relating to his career as
an artist. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1989.

Laurie, A.P. Greek and Roman Methods of Painting: Some Comments on the Statements
Made, By Pliny and Vitruvius About Wall and Panel Painting. (Cambridge: University
Press, 1910). https://archive.org/details/cu31924016811006

Laurie, A.P. The Materials of the Painter’s Craft in Europe and Egypt: from Earliest
Times to the End of the XVIIIth Century, With Some Account of Their Preparation and
Use. London and Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1910.
https://archive.org/details/cu31924016809927

Loomis, Andrew. Creative Illustration. New York: Viking Press, 1969.

Massey, Robert. Formulas for Painters. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1967.

Mayer, Ralph. The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques: Fifth Edition,
Revised and Updated. New York: Viking Press, 1991.

Merimee, Jean-Francois-Leonor. The art of painting in oil and in fresco : being a
history of the various processes and materials employed, from its discovery, by Hubert
and John Van Eyck, to the present time. London: Whittaker & Co., 1839.
https://archive.org/details/gri_artofpaintin00c2me

Merrifield, Mary P. The Art of Fresco Painting in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
(1846). New York: Dover Publications, 2004.

Merrifield, Mary P. Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting,
Original Texts with English Translations, vols. I & II (1849). New York: Dover
Publications, 1999.

Never, Sylive. The Strasbourg Manuscript. A Medieval Tradition of Artists’ Recipe
Collections (1400-1570). London: Archetype Publications, Ltd., 2016.

Norling, Ernest R. Perspective Made Easy (1939). New York: Dover Publications,
1967.

Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh. The Painter in Oil: A complete treatise on the principles
and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors. New York: Dover
Publications, 2006.

Ramos-Poqui, Guillem. The Technique of Icon Painting. Harrisburg, Pennsylvannia:

Morehouse Publishing, 1990.
Richter, Jean Paul. The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, vol. 1. London: Sampson
Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1883).
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/pdf/cnm22b2242052v1.pdf;
https://archive.org/details/literaryworksofl01leonuoft

Richter, Jean Paul. The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, vols. 1&2. London:
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1883).
http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/

Rousar, Darren R. Cast Drawing Using the Sight-Size Approach. Velatura Press, LLC.,
2007.

Rousar, Darren R. Cast Painting Using the Sight-Size Approach. Velatura Press, LLC.,
2009.

Schadler, Koo. Egg Tempera Painting: A Comprehensive Guide to Egg Tempera
Painting. Koo Schadler, 2009.

Schmid, Richard. Alla Prima: Everything I Know About Painting. Stove Prairie Press,
2004.

Schmid, Richard, and Katie Swatland. Alla Prima II Companion: Richard Schmid’s
Materials, Tools, and Techniques. Stove Prairie Press, 2014.

Speed, Harold. The Practice and Science of Drawing. New York: Dover Publications,
1972.

Seymour, Pip. The Artist’s Handbook. London: Arcturus Publishing, Ltd., 2003.

Speed, Harold. Oil Painting Techniques and Materials. New York: Dover Publications,
1987.

Solomon, Solomon J. The Practice of Oil Painting and Drawing. New York: Dover
Publications, 2012.

Spurgeon, Tad. Living Craft: A Painter’s Process. 2011.

Thompson, Daniel V. The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting. New York:
Dover Publications, 1956.

Thompson, Daniel V. The Practice of Tempera Painting: Materials and Methods. New
York: Dover Publications, 1962.
http://www.noteaccess.com/Texts/Thompson/index.htm

Uebele, Charles, Paint Making and Color Grinding. New York: The Painters Magazine,
1913. http://chestofbooks.com/home-improvement/repairs/painting/Paint-
Making-Color-Grinding/
https://archive.org/details/paintmakingandc00uebegoog
Vasari, Giorgio. Vasari on Technique. Translated by Louise S. Maclehose (1907). New
York: Dover Publications, 1960.
https://archive.org/details/vasariontechniq00vasagoog

Vasari, Giorgio. The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, edited by William
Gaunt. London & New York: Everyman’s Library, J. M. Dent and E. P. Dutton, 1963.
http://members.efn.org/~acd/vite/VasariLives.html
https://archive.org/details/livesmosteminen03richgoog
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/

Vibert, Jehan Georges. The Science of Painting. London: Percy Young, 1892.
https://archive.org/details/sciencepainting00vibegoog

Waentig, Friederike. Plastics in Art: A Study from the Conservation Point of View.
Petersberg: Imhof., 2008.

Wehlte, Kurt. The Materials and Techniques of Painting. Translated by Ursus Dix.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. 1975.

Wilcox, Michael. Glazing. The School of Colour Publishing, 2014.