Vasari on Technique (平装)

Great craftsman and biographer’s full, readable discussions of architecture—orders, pavements, planning and design, etc.; sculpture—modelling in wax and clay, tools and materials used in marble carving, reliefs, bronze figures, etc.; painting—foreshortening, coloring, fresco, tempera, gilding, stained glass windows, niello work, etc. Written in a very pleasant style. Introduction and notes by G. Baldwin Brown. 29 illustrations.