Looking at Paintings: A Guide to Technical Terms, Revised Edition CAAMEMBER Michel Draguet

Michel Draguet

Shorter texts highlight new acquisitions and discoveries in the collections and focus on the diverse tools for scholarship being developed at the Research Institute

as well as essays by Petra Reichert-Südbeck

This book helps children identify and explore colors through eight kid-friendly paintings by the great Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“[This book] opens on a new way of considering the meaning of ‘sacred’ and ‘profane’ art

Looking at Paintings: A Guide to Technical Terms, Revised Edition CAAMEMBER Michel DraguetTiarna Doherty and Anne T. Woollett What is tempera? What is foreshortening? What is fresco? These termsand more than 100 othersare explained and illustrated in Looking at Paintings. First published in 1992, Looking at Paintingsnow thoroughly revised and expandedpresents concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most often encountered by museum goers. This new edition pays special attention to the processes and methods of paintings