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The Various Arts - (De Diversis Artibus) (Hardcover)
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The Various Arts - (De Diversis Artibus) (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
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As far as is known, Theophilus's was the only treatise on almost
all the major arts that was produced during the thousand years of
the Middle Ages. In his preface he presents the philosophical
attitudes to the visual arts of a thinking man of the time. In his
main text, which he divides into three Books, he explains the
contemporary techniques of making wall-paintings, manuscripts
paintings, stained glass windows, ivory carvings, and various kinds
of metalwork. The first references to oil painting and paper occur
in the treatise, which also gives the earliest known instructions
for making an organ. Theophilus's treatise has been of interest to
scholars for some centuries. It was referred to by Cornelius
Agrippa in the sixteenth century, and was the basis of an article
by Lessing in the eighteenth. The original autograph manuscript has
not survived, but the reconstruction of it by Professor Dodwell is
now considered to provide its only definitive text: this
comprehensive edition includes an English translation on facing
pages and full introductory and textual commentary.
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