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  The History of an Art, 5 volumes

Within the Carroggio Skira Art collection, these monographs present the main pictorial techniques, explained by renowned authors who specialise in the history of each technique.
   
Larger image Water-colour, (sold out)
1 volume
Author: Jean Leymarie
Year: 1998
Pages: 160
Format: 25 x 35
Cover: Hardcover
Languages: Spanish
ISBN. 84-7254-249-1
This work presents the most beautiful landscapes, still-lifes, and figures painted by artists from every period, from the origins of this technique, which goes back to ancient Egypt, to the present.

Larger image Pastel,
1 volume
Author: Geneviève Monnier
Year:1996
Pages: 171
Format: 25 x 34
Cover: Hardcover
Languages: Spanish
ISBN. 84-7254-361-7
This elegant technique, where coloured powder produces infinite hues and gradations, has produced sublime works in which lines, colour and light take on to special importance.
Winner of the prize awarded to the best book of the year by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture.

Larger image Drawing, (sold out)
1 volume
Author: Jean Leymarie,
Geneviève Monnier
and Bernice Rose
Year: 1979
Pages: 280
Format: 25 x 34
Cover: Hardcover
Languages: Spanish
ISBN. 84-7254-223-8
Drawing, the origin of all artistic expression, is the subject of this volume, which allows us to admire almost 400 reproductions. The featured drawings are the work of both artists who specialised in this technique and others who show moment of creation in all its purity.

Larger image Engraving, (sold out)
1 volume
Author: Michel Melot, Antony
Griffiths, Richard S. Field
and André Béguin
Year: 1999
Pages: 285
Format: 25 x 34
Cover: Hardcover
Languages: Spanish
ISBN. 84-7254-224-6
Halfway between the mechanics of reproduction and the modern idea of creation, engraving has come to be considered to major art. This is attested to by the more than 300 reproductions included in this volume, all of them works of expressive and perfection.

Larger image Oil Painting,
1 volume
Author: Jean-Luc Daval
Year:1998
Pages: 172
Format: 25 x 34
Cover: Hardcover
Languages: Spanish
ISBN. 84-7254-360-9
This technique, which has come to identified with painting itself, has been used to create the most famous masterpieces. This volume includes these works, with special attention to those pieces which illustrated the different procedures which can be used with this medium.
 

 
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