Lumen Picturae: A Classical Drawing Manual

de Wit, Frederick

ISBN 10: 0062048880 / ISBN 13: 9780062048882

Published by Harper Design, 2011

About this Item

Book has moderate wear and rubbing to edges, minor smudging to top edge.Otherwise, attractive copy with clean, unmarked pages and sturdy binding. Dust jacket has mild smudging and mild wear to edges with small closed tear at bottom right corner. Otherwise, attractive copy and now protected in archival covering. Pictures available upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lumen Picturae: A Classical Drawing Manual
• Publisher: Harper Design
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062048880
• ISBN 13: 9780062048882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art Techniques

About this title

Synopsis

LumenPicturae is a pictorial guide to classicaldrawing as exemplified by the sublime work of the influential 17th centuryDutch engraver Frederick de Wit. Presenting a carefully curated set of imagesnever before seen outside of rare book archives, Lumen Picturaerenders de Wits’ incomparable figure drawings available to the public forthe first time. In the tradition of Harold Speed’s The Practice and Scienceof Drawing, Andrew Loomis’s Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth,Gottfried Bammes’ Der NackteMensch, and George Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life,the step-by-step visuals in Lumen Picturae arean indispensible handbook for visual artists both professional and amateur, andfor readers of any age or language who want to incorporate the incomparableinsight of classical Dutch figure studies into their drawing today.

About the Author

Frederick de Wit published his work Lumen Picturae 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, as we present it here, 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.

This work brought de Wit renown and always featured in the publishing house's catalogue. Even today it is fascinating for the great artistic quality of the tables that contributed to the lasting fame of its author, an undisputed master in the arts of printing, engraving, illustration, and painting.