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Michael Price: Renaissance Mysteries Volume II

Volume II, the artist as a creative intellectual, links the painter´s craft with the creative process and elucidates the degree of compositional planning starting with the painting´s rectangular format. The demonstrated evidence for the application of Euclidean geometry is based upon exact measurements of painted surfaces on panels, X-radiographs, and infrared images from paintings. The final chapter concludes with the reasons for the demise of this painting tradition and how industrialization and the standardization of art materials led to a new painting tradition from the nineteenth century. Find a video lecture of Michael Price introducing his new book "Renaissance Mysteries" at Kremer Pigments in New York.