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  2. Silverpoint - Wikipedia

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    The softness of these metals made them effective drawing instruments. [1] Goldsmiths also used metalpoint drawings to prepare their detailed, meticulous designs. Albrecht Dürer 's father was one such craftsman who later taught his young son to draw in metalpoint, to such good effect that his 1484 Self-Portrait at the Age of 13 is still ...

  3. Style (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Traditional art history has also placed great emphasis on the individual style, sometimes called the signature style, [28] of an artist: "the notion of personal style—that individuality can be uniquely expressed not only in the way an artist draws, but also in the stylistic quirks of an author's writing (for instance)— is perhaps an axiom ...

  4. List of art reference books - Wikipedia

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    A history of the "Old water-colour" society, now the Royal society of painters in water colours: Volume 1, Volume 2 by John Lewis Roget (London, Longmans, Green, and co., 1891). The ideals of painting by J. Comyns Carr (New York, Macmillan, 1917). An Art history focusing on the ideals that inspired European artists throughout the ages.

  5. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or "as".A simile is a comparison used to attract the reader's attention and describe something in descriptive terms.

  6. Rhetorical device - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, a rhetorical device, persuasive device, or stylistic device is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them towards considering a topic from a perspective, using language designed to encourage or provoke an emotional display of a given perspective or action.

  7. Cambridge Studies in the History of Art - Wikipedia

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    Pavel Kuznetsov: His life and art, Peter Stupples, 1990. ISBN 978-0521364881; A bibliography of salon criticism in Paris from the Ancien Regime to the restoration 1699-1827, Neil MacWilliam, 1991. ISBN 9780521346344; A bibliography of salon criticism in Paris from the July Monarchy to the Second Republic, 1831-1851, Neil MacWilliam, 1991.

  8. Gothic book illustration - Wikipedia

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    Notably, the falcon book demonstrates the influence of Islamic book art on southern Italian book illustration, likely transmitted through Sicily. During the Trecento and Quattrocento periods, numerous cities became art centers that encouraged art as a means of representation and competed to attract the best artists. Although French influence ...

  9. Category:Art history books - Wikipedia

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    Art and Illusion; Art by Women in Florence; Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties; Art Deco of the 20s and 30s; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area (book) Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture; Artists in biographies by Filippo Baldinucci; Arts of Mankind; The Automatic Message