Technical Guides for Painting -- Texts

Early Works on Technique
Cennini, Cennino. The Craftsman's Handbook; "Il Libro dell Arte." Translated by Daniel V. Thompson, Jr. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1933. New York: Dover

Eastlake, Sir Charles. Materials for a History of Oil Painting. London: Longmans, Brown, Green and Longman. 1847. Reprinted as: Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters. 2 volumes. New York: Dover, 1960.

Merrifield, Mary. Original Treatises Dating from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Centuries on the Arts of Painting. London: John Murray, 1849. New York: Dover, 1967.

Vasari, Giorgio. On Technique. Translated by L. S. Maclehose. London: J. M. Dent, 1907. New York: Dover, 1960.

General Texts
Chaet, Bernard. An Artist's Notebook. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979.

Church, Arthur H. The Chemistry of Paints and Painting. London: Seely, Service and Company, 1915.

Doerner, Max. The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting. Translated by Eugen Neuhaus. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1934.

Gettens, Rutherford J. and Stout, George L . Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopaedia. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1942. New York: Dover, 1966.

Laurie, A. P. The Painter's Methods and Materials. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1926. New York: Dover, 1967.

Mayer, Ralph W. The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques [revised]. New York: Viking, 1982.

Protection of Pictures
Dolloff, Francis W. and Perkinson, Roy L. How to Care for Works of Art on Paper. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1971.

Feller, Robert L., Stolow, Nathan and Jones, Elizabeth H. On Picture Varnishes and Their Solvents. Cleveland and London: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1971.

Keck, Caroline K. A Handbook on the Care of Paintings. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1965.

Ruhemann, Helmut. The Cleaning of Paintings: Problems and Potentialities. London: Faber and Faber. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1968.

Stout, George L. The Care of Pictures. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948.

Pigments
Harley, R. D. Artists' Pigments c. 1600-1835: A study in English Documentary Sources. London: Butterworths, 1970.

Weber, F. W. Artists' Pigments: Their Chemical and Physical Properties. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1923.

Oil Technique
Chieffo, Clifford T. The Contemporary Oil Painter's Handbook. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976.

Watercolor
Cohn, Marjorie B. Wash and Gouache. Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, Havard University, 1 977.

Koschatzky, Walter. Watercolor: History and Technique. Translated by Mary Whittall. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.

Tempera
Thompson, Daniel V., Jr. The Practice of Tempera Painting. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1936. New Yrok: Dover, 1962.

Wax Techniques
Jackson, F. Hamilton. Mural Painting, New York: Scribner's, 1905.

Pratt, Frances and Fizell, Becca. Encaustic, Materials and Methods. New York: Lear, 1949.

Fresco
Crowninshield, Frederic. Mural Painting. Boston: Tichnor and Company. 1887.

Nordmark, Olle. Fresco Painting. New York: American Artist Group, Inc., 1947.

Synthetic Resins
GutiÚrrez, JosÚ L. From Fresco to Plastics. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada. 1956.

GutiÚrrez, JosÚ L. and Roukes, Nicholas. Painting with Acrylics. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1965.

Simonds, Herbert, Weith, Archie and Bigelow, M. H. Handbook of Plastics. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1955.

Woody, Russell. Painting with Synthetic Media. New York: Reinhold Publishng Corporation, 1965.

Pastel
Sears, Elinor L. Pastel Painting Step by Step. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1968.

Watrous, James. The Craft of Old Master Drawings. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957.