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'To proceed & beginne wth ye Coullers, Whitt ffor its Virgin
puritie is the most Excellent To proceed and begin with the
colours: white for its virgin purity is the most excellent, viz.
ceruse and white lead; both are subject to inconveniences, and are
thus prevented: the ceruse, after you have wrought it, will
tarnish, and many times look of a reddish or yellowish shine; the
white lead, if too much ground, wiull glister or shine, and if you
grind it too coarse will be unfit to work, and so unserviceable.
There is but one way to remedy, which is to lay them in the sun two
or three days before you grind them, which will exhale and draw
away those salt and greasy mixtures that starve and poison the
colours. ' Treatise on the Arte of Limning is one of the most
important documents in the history of English art. Published in
paperback for the first time, this edition provides a transcript of
the original manuscript copy facing a modernised version,
extensively annotated. The substantial introduction explores the
history of the Treatise, the life of its author, its historical and
artistic context, and the technique of limning.The Treatise
combines elegance, information, personal forthrightness and
spirited observation.
This edition includes all of Dowson's known poems. It describes in
detail the contents of his manuscript notebook and re-transcribes
the poems from it; it includes his two published volumes, Verses
(1896) and Decorations (1899), his verse play The Pierrot of the
Minute, the discrete independent parts of his verse translation of
Voltaire, and a few uncollected pieces. All have been checked where
possible against the original manuscripts and annotated to provide
explanation and context.
Ivor Gurney is perhaps best known as a musician and First World War
poet but he also wrote vividly and prolifically about his native
Gloucestershire, finding inspiration and joy in walking the
countryside and expressing its different moods. This book explores
the particular Gloucestershire landscapes - the Cotswolds, the
Severn Meadows and the city of Gloucester - that stimulated his
creativity in poetry and music, but the relationship went much
deeper. Gurney became increasingly dependent on 'being-in' these
Gloucestershire places as the source of his identity and
well-being. Confined to a mental asylum in Kent for the last
fifteen years of his life, he still drew on his memories of
Gloucestershire, but it was a poetry of absence and loss. This book
contains a wealth of Gurney's poetry with many pieces being
published here for the first time. Other features aim to clarify
the poetry/place dialogue and include an illustrated colour map, in
which Ivor Gurney's Gloucestershire has been interpreted by a map
artist working closely with the author; a layered model of Gurney's
relationship with these places; and four walking routes, with
accompanying commentaries and poetry extracts. The author is a
geographer, literary researcher and walker. Having been born and
brought up in Gloucestershire, she has a passion for its landscapes
and places.
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