Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies
by: Andrea Kirsh; Rustin Levenson

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 328 pages, 267 b&w and color illustrations. "The only comprehensive discussion available on materials, techniques, and condition issues in Western easel paintings from medieval times to the present. In detailed case studies of 25 paintings by artists from Giotto and Leonardo to Vermeer, Degas, and Pollock, the authors take the reader through the layers of a painting, from canvas or panel to varnish, in clear, readable language, de-mystifying the world of the conservator for art historians, dealers, collectors, or curators." Clean, bright copy.