Artists Bookworks specializes in artists’ books and writings of the early 20th century, and titles on Russian-Avant-Garde modernism. In 2017 they launch a series on historical pigments, 1st century B.C. to the 19th century based on contemporary treatises, complemented by the first documentary dictionary of pigments.
A French collection of recipes for painting on parchment, On Making Colours, by a painter, Peter of St. Audemar, possibly of the Benedictine Abbey of St Bertin at St. Omer in northern France. St. Omer...
Treatises on painting between the 1st and the 12th centuries A.D. may have been many but those preserved are found in two manuscripts from the 10th and 12th centuries: the Mappae Clavicula and Eraclius,...
A collection of all the historical pigments mentioned in the treatises included in the series, Colour Palettes, by century, complemented by recipes from other contemporary sources.
From Italy to France to Flanders, the arts of painting in the 14th century were practiced in manuscript illumination, on panel, and in fresco. Recipes for pigments appropriate to all these arts are...
15th century Italian painting mastered the art of painting light in the world. As Leon Battista Alberti wrote in On Painting (1435), "light has the power to vary color", hence a rich palette of pigments...
A companion volume to 14th Century Colour Palettes -Volume 2, this book covers painting on the wall and on wood panel from Cennino Cennini, The Book of Art, of the late 1390s (extracts). The pigments...
The French Impressionist painters discovered new means for painting light – they used a “solar palette”, the pigments matched to the colors the eyes see. They are the colors of a ray of light. This little book reproduces palettes by 8 of the plein-air painters – Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Seurat, Signac, and Van Gogh.
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Artists Bookworks specializes in artists’ books and writings of the early 20th century, and titles on Russian-Avant-Garde modernism. In 2017 they launch a series on historical pigments, 1st century B.C. to the 19th century based on contemporary treatises, complemented by the first documentary dictionary of pigments. 
