num_pages: 328
description: The book that turned the art world on its head, now with new and exciting discoveries. Hockney takes his thesis further, demonstrating how Renaissance artists used mirrors and lenses to develop perspective and chiaroscuro – radically challenging our view of how these two foundations of Western art were established.Table of ContentsIntroduction • The Visual Evidence • The Textual Evidence The Correspondence • Endmatter
language: English
title: Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
titlecomplete: Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
genres: Photography, Drawing, Historical, Art History, European History, Nonfiction, History, Design, Science, Art
ratings_count: 2207
publisher: THAMES HUDSON