Colour

"This Pocket Guide explores the ways in which artists have used colour, and describes the pigments characteristic of a particular period, the effect on colour of the painter's chosen medium, and how the development of new pigments dramatically extended the palette. Optics, and the comparative merits of colour and drawing, have preoccupied painters for centuries, and the authors outline the major theories expounded in artists' treatises. Detailed studies of paintings from across the National Gallery's Collection, from van Eyck to Seurat, provide vivid illustrations of the extraordinary variety of colour in the history of European painting."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved