A Documentary history of Art.pdf

A Documentary History of Art
Doubleday & Company. Inc. | 1957 | English | 428 pages | PDF | 86.6 MB

The present volume has been compiled in response to the ever increasing demand for the original documents on the arts. Its aim is to add freshness and solidity to the study of the history of art by making available the words of the artists themselves and of other persons concerned. The materials lifted here from the graves of old books in old libraries—the letters of Diirer; stories of fires and miracles from old chronicles; recipe books for apprentices; and treatises on painting and architecture from the days when it was permissible to spice theory with speculation—are fit to put new life and plastic quality into the familiar story of the evolution of styles.