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The Bible of Art & Painting
A free online book in 31 chapters: the great movements from the Renaissance to abstraction, real anatomy for artists, and every major genre and medium. Illustrated with 159 public-domain paintings, drawings and anatomical plates you can zoom into.
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Part I: Art movements
The Italian Renaissance
The Northern Renaissance
Baroque and the Dutch Golden Age
Rococo
Neoclassicism
Romanticism
Realism
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Japanese ukiyo-e
Symbolism, Art Nouveau and Expressionism
The road to abstraction
Part II: Anatomy for artists
Anatomy I: Proportion and the figure
Anatomy II: The skeleton
Anatomy III: The muscles
Anatomy IV: The head and skull
Anatomy V: The torso
Anatomy VI: Arms and hands
Anatomy VII: Legs and feet
Anatomy VIII: Movement and foreshortening
Part III: Craft, genres and media
Colour: hue, value and temperature
Value, light and form
Perspective and composition
Drawing media: from silverpoint to charcoal
Oil painting
Watercolour and gouache
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Acrylic painting
Tempera, fresco and printmaking
The portrait
The landscape
