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Creator:
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793–1865
Title(s):
Methods and materials of painting of the great schools and masters : two volumes bound as one / Sir Charles Lock Eastlake.
Additional Title(s):
Materials for a history of oil painting
Published/Created:
Mineola, NY : Dover Publications, ©2001.
Physical Description:
xii, 561 pages, xiv, 434 pages ; 22 cm
Holdings:
Reference Library
ND50 E28 1960 (LC)
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Note: Please contact the Reference Library to schedule an appointment [Email ycba.reference@yale.edu]

Reference Library
ND50 E28 1960 (LC)
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Note: Please contact the Reference Library to schedule an appointment [Email ycba.reference@yale.edu]
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3725428
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Books
Notes:
"Dover 0-486-41726-3"--Spine title.
Originally published: Materials for a history of oil painting. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847; previously published in 2 v. by Dover in 1960.
Includes index.
Sir Charles Eastlake, a former president of the British Royal Academy and director of the National Gallery, was one of the world's foremost experts on the techniques of painting. A painter of considerable renown himself, he devoted years to traveling throughout England and Europe, where he searched through museums, monasteries, universities, and libraries, gradually amassing a collection of rare manuscripts from which he was able to reconstruct the technical secrets of the great painters of the past.In this comprehensive treasury (two volumes bound as one), Eastlake presents the results of his researches. He offers detailed discussions of Greek and Roman art methods, medieval techniques, tempera painting, the revolutionary use of oil paints by Hubert van Eyck, Flemish methods of preparing colors, and the methods of Reynolds and other 18th-century British masters. The second volume focuses on the technical secrets of members of various Italian schools, including such masters as Leonardo, Raphael, Perugino, Correggio, Andrea del Sarto, and many others. Rounding off the book are more than 100 pages of professional essays covering a wide range of subjects -- from "Life in Inanimate Things" and "Neutral Tints in White and Other Draperies" to "Venetian Process" and "How to Compose and Paint a Single Head." Students, painters, art historians, and any lover of fine art will find Eastlake's work invaluable, both for its source material and its painstaking coverage of the technical evolution of painting.
Subject Terms:
Painting -- History.
Painting.
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  • Chapter I. Introduction.
  • Connexion between the early History of Painting and that of Medicine
  • Chapter. II. The Ancients
  • Chapter. III. Earliest Practice of Oil Painting
  • Chapter. IV. Oil Painting during the latter part of the Fourteenth Century
  • Note on a Venetian Manuscript in the British Museum
  • Chapter. V. Practice of Painting generally during the Fourteenth Century
  • Note on a German Manuscript in the Public Library at Strassburg
  • Chapter. VI. Fresco Painting and Wax Painting during the Fourteenth Century
  • Note on some early Specimens of English Art
  • Chapter. VII. Vasari's Account of the Method of Oil Painting introduced by Van Eyck
  • Note on the Introduction of Oil Painting into Italy
  • Chapter. VIII. Examination of Vasari's Statements respecting the Invention of Van Eyck
  • Chapter. IX. Oleo-Resinous Vehicles
  • Chapter. X. Preparation of Oils
  • Chapter. XI. Methods of the Flemish School considered generally
  • Note on the Modes of strengthening Panels by Ledges or Battens
  • Chapter. XII. Preparation of Colours
  • Note on the Use of Triptychs, andc.
  • Note on the Varnish prepared from the Olio d' Abezzo
  • Chapter. XIII. Practice of later Masters
  • Extracts from Notes by Sir Joshua Reynolds
  • Note on the Mayerne Manuscript in the British Museum
  • Additions and Corrections
  • Scriptural and historical Subjects painted in England during the Reign of Henry III.