Light and Shade in Dutch and Flemish Art
Subtitle: A History of Chiaroscuro in Art Theory and Artistic Practice in the Netherlands of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9782503549446
Subjects: Art, flemish; Art, dutch
Description: "This study investigates how and why painters applied light and shade in their work, the sources from which they gathered their knowledge about the behaviour and effects of light, and the artistic concepts and terminology they used when they thought and spoke about lighting in art."