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Alberti,LeonBattista.OnPainting.TranslatedbyJohnR.Spencer.NewHaven:Yale
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Aristides,Juliette.LessonsinClassicalPainting:EssentialTechniquesfromInsidethe
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Aristides,Juliette.ClassicalPaintingAtelier:AContemporaryGuidetoTraditional
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Aristides,Juliette.ClassicalDrawingAtelier:AContemporaryGuidetoTraditional
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DesArtistesPeintres.Anvers:J.-E.Buschmann,1926.
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Broecke,Lara.CenninoCennini's'IlLibrodell'Arte':ANewEnglishTranslationand
CommentaryandItalianTranscription.London:ArchetypePublications,2015.
Bucklow,Spike,TheAlchemyofPaint:ArtScienceandSecretsfromtheMiddleAges.
London:MarionBoyarsPublishers,Ltd.2009.
Carlson,JohnF.Carlson’sGuidetoLandscapePainting.NewYork:Dover
Publications,1973.
Cennini,Cennino.Cenninod'AndreaCennini’sTheCraftsman'sHandbook:IlLibro
dell'Arte.TranslatedbyDanielV.Thompson,Jr.NewYork:DoverPublications,1954
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Clarke,Mark.MediaevalPainters’MaterialsandTechniques:TheMontpelier‘Liber
DiversarumArcium’(c.1200-1400).London:ArchetypePublications,2011.
Cole,RexV.Theartisticanatomyoftrees,theirstructure&treatmentinpainting.
London:Seeley,Service&Co.,1920.
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Cordoba,Ricardo.CraftTreatisesandHandbooks:TheDisseminationofTechnical
KnowledgeintheMiddleAges(DeDiversisArtibus).Turnhout:BrepolsPublishers,
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DeMayerne,TheodoreTurquet.LostsecretsofFlemishpainting:Includingthefirst
completeEnglishtranslationoftheDeMayerneManuscript,B.M.Sloane2052,edited
byDonaldFelsJr.Alchemist,2001.
Doerner,Max.TheMaterialsoftheArtistandTheirUseinPainting:WithNotesonthe
TechniquesoftheOldMasters,RevisedEdition.SanDiego:HarcourtBraceJovanovich,
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Elliot,Virgil.TraditionalOilPainting:AdvancedTechniquesandConceptsfromthe
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Eastlake,CharlesLock.MethodsandMaterialsofPaintingoftheGreatSchoolsand
Masters,vols.I&II(1847).NewYork:DoverPublications,2001.
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Gettens,RutherfordJ.,andGeorgeL.Stout.PaintingMaterials:AShortEncyclopedia.
Reprint;NewYork:DoverPublications,2011.
Gottsegen,Mark.Painter'sHandbook:RevisedandExpanded.
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ottsegen+painting&source=bl&ots=mDcEP0UswK&sig=3gMkSNloKTovZW8uOn6AC
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Hale,Gardner.TheTechniqueofFrescoPainting(1933).NewYork:Dover
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Hart,Aidan.TechniquesofIconandWallPainting,Leominster:Gracewing,2011.
Hetherington,Paul.The‘Painter’sManual’ofDionysiusofFourna.Torrence,
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Hiler,Hilaire.NotesontheTechniqueofPainting.NewYork:Faber&Faber,1969.
Hiler,Hilaire.ThePainter’sPocketbookofMethodsandMaterials.LosAngeles:
ResearchPublishingCompany,1945.https://archive.org/details/painterspo00hile
Hilliard,Nicholas.AMoreCompendiousDiscourseConcerningYeArtofLiming.
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Kay,Reed.ThePainter'sGuidetoStudioMethodsandMaterials.EnglewoodCliffs,NJ:
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Kemp,Martin,ed.andMargaretWalker.LeonardoonPainting.Ananthologyof
writingsbyLeonardodaVinciwithaselectionofdocumentsrelatingtohiscareeras
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Laurie,A.P.GreekandRomanMethodsofPainting:SomeCommentsontheStatements
Made,ByPlinyandVitruviusAboutWallandPanelPainting.(Cambridge:University
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Laurie,A.P.TheMaterialsofthePainter’sCraftinEuropeandEgypt:fromEarliest
TimestotheEndoftheXVIIIthCentury,WithSomeAccountofTheirPreparationand
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Loomis,Andrew.CreativeIllustration.NewYork:VikingPress,1969.
Massey,Robert.FormulasforPainters.NewYork:Watson-Guptill,1967.
Mayer,Ralph.TheArtist'sHandbookofMaterialsandTechniques:FifthEdition,
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Merimee,Jean-Francois-Leonor.Theartofpaintinginoilandinfresco:beinga
historyofthevariousprocessesandmaterialsemployed,fromitsdiscovery,byHubert
andJohnVanEyck,tothepresenttime.London:Whittaker&Co.,1839.
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Merrifield,MaryP.TheArtofFrescoPaintingintheMiddleAgesandtheRenaissance
(1846).NewYork:DoverPublications,2004.
Merrifield,MaryP.MedievalandRenaissanceTreatisesontheArtsofPainting,
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Publications,1999.
Never,Sylive.TheStrasbourgManuscript.AMedievalTraditionofArtists’Recipe
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Norling,ErnestR.PerspectiveMadeEasy(1939).NewYork:DoverPublications,
1967.
Parkhurst,DanielBurleigh.ThePainterinOil:Acompletetreatiseontheprinciples
andtechniquenecessarytothepaintingofpicturesinoilcolors.NewYork:Dover
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Schadler,Koo.EggTemperaPainting:AComprehensiveGuidetoEggTempera
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Schmid,Richard.AllaPrima:EverythingIKnowAboutPainting.StovePrairiePress,
2004.
Schmid,Richard,andKatieSwatland.AllaPrimaIICompanion:RichardSchmid’s
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Speed,Harold.ThePracticeandScienceofDrawing.NewYork:DoverPublications,
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Seymour,Pip.TheArtist’sHandbook.London:ArcturusPublishing,Ltd.,2003.
Speed,Harold.OilPaintingTechniquesandMaterials.NewYork:DoverPublications,
1987.
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Publications,2012.
Spurgeon,Tad.LivingCraft:APainter’sProcess.2011.
Thompson,DanielV.TheMaterialsandTechniquesofMedievalPainting.NewYork:
DoverPublications,1956.
Thompson,DanielV.ThePracticeofTemperaPainting:MaterialsandMethods.New
York:DoverPublications,1962.
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Uebele,Charles,PaintMakingandColorGrinding.NewYork:ThePaintersMagazine,
1913.http://chestofbooks.com/home-improvement/repairs/painting/PaintMaking-Color-Grinding/
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Vasari,Giorgio.VasarionTechnique.TranslatedbyLouiseS.Maclehose(1907).New
York:DoverPublications,1960.
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Vasari,Giorgio.TheLivesofthePainters,SculptorsandArchitects,editedbyWilliam
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Vibert,JehanGeorges.TheScienceofPainting.London:PercyYoung,1892.
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Waentig,Friederike.PlasticsinArt:AStudyfromtheConservationPointofView.
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Wehlte,Kurt.TheMaterialsandTechniquesofPainting.TranslatedbyUrsusDix.
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