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?