Best of
Art-History

1949

Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism


Rudolf Wittkower - 1949
    A brief examination of the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture that draws attention to the values underlying this style

The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting: With Notes on the Techniques of the Old Masters


Max Doerner - 1949
    Index; illustrations. Translated and revised by Eugen Neuhaus.

Landscape Into Art


Kenneth Clark - 1949
    In 'Landscape into Art' he effectively outlines the growth of landscape painting as an independent art, from the early use of symbols taken from nature to the canvases of such great painters as Constable and Corot, Turner and Van Gogh, Cezanne and Seurat. And today - what changes of survival, he asks, has the image of an enclosed garden in an age of slide rules and nuclear power?