Lumen Picturae
Subtitle: A Classical Drawing Manual
Publisher: Harper Design
Published: Jun 28, 2011
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780062048882
Description: Frederick de Wit published his work 'Lumen picturæ' in Amsterdam between 1660 and 1675. It is a book of great historic value that falls within the tradition of the treatises on illustration, which were an essential element in any artist's education up to the impressionist revolution. The complete version of this work is an excellent introduction to the aesthetic developed in the seventeenth century. It enables us to take up the trail of the education and evolution of a painter in the Dutch Golden Age, characterized by hitherto unknown cultural prosperity and a blossoming of the arts.
Notes: Source title: Lumen Picturae: A Classical Drawing Manual