Green Atelier Student Library

Lives of the Most Eminent Painter's, Sculptors, and Architects by Vasari

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art".

Josh Green

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The Book of the Art of Cenino Cenini: A contemporary practical treatise (Il libro dell'Arte o Trattato della Pittura)

Thought to have been written around the turn of the 15th century, the book is a "how to" on late Medieval and early Renaissance painting. It contains information on pigments, brushes, drawing, panel painting, the art of fresco, painting on fabrics and casting, amongst other techniques and tricks.

Josh Green

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The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

In this work, Harold Speed approaches this dynamic aspect of drawing and painting from many different points of view. He plays the historical against the scientific, theory against precise artistic definition. He begins with a study of line drawing and mass drawing, the two basic approaches the artist needs to learn.

Josh Green

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Naturalist Painting by Josh Green

Naturalist Painting is a book of Josh Green's teachings on drawing and painting.

Josh Green

$8

Hollow Myth: MFA Thesis by Josh Green

Josh Green

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