Light and Shade in Dutch and Flemish Art
An edition of Light and Shade in Dutch and Flemish Art (2015)
A History of Chiaroscuro in Art Theory and Artistic Practice in the Netherlands of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
By Ulrike Kern
Publish Date
2015
Publisher
Brepols Publishers
Language
eng
Pages
224
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."
subjects: Art, flemish, Art, dutch, Dutch Art, Flemish Art, Chiaroscuro, Light in art