The Art of Painting In Oyl

By John Smith

Subjects: Technique, Decorative arts, Details. Art History, Paint, Industrial Painting, Early works to 1800, ART / Techniques / Oil Painting, Oil Painting, Painting, Architecture, Graphic arts, Artists, Contributions in oil painting, Techniques - Oil Painting

Description: An overview of the styles and history of oil painting in the 17th century to the mid 1700s. While the title would suggest this is merely a work from an artistic view, it covers a variety of topics including how to work with gold and silver gilding, among others. The book's interior cover page states: > "wherein is included each particular > circumstance relating to that art and > mystery : containing the best and most > approved rules for preparing, mixing, > and working of oyl-colours : the whole > treatise being so full compleat, and > so exactly fitted to the meanest > capacity, that all persons > whatsoever, may be able by these > directions, to paint in oyl-colours > all manner of timber-work, such as > posts, pails, palisadoes, gates, > doors, or any thing else that requires > either use, beauty, or preservation > from the violence or injury of the > weather : in which is also > particularly laid down, all the > several circumstances required in > painting of sundials, printed > pictures, shash-windows, &c. in > oily-colours"