The Secret Of The Old Masters

by Albert Abendschein

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

210 pages, Paperback

First published September 10, 2012

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is dry as toast; however, if you put this in the context of the time that it was written then you will understand that the book has more merit than those who have not studied master works could possibly understand. Writing in 1909 it was written after the camera was invented and when studying under a master painter was not easily possible. At this time in history artists who wished to paint realism or more classically were not able to get proper instruction. This book is therefore a last grasp at some very fine threads of knowledge which was surviving from the master's education system that was passed from Master to student for around 500 years before this.
It is not lost on me that Albert Abendschein was struggling to hold onto the rare and important teachings from these greats who existed before him.

[m_forooz · Rating 2 out of 5]

Only thing I've derived from reading this book is the idea of "sunning" a color chart made of pure colors used on the palette for 6 hours a day, for the span of one week in order to see if the colors brighten, darken or turn green (in other words, to test the quality levels of the colors, brands, etc.)

[Deborah · Rating 1 out of 5]

What???

Way too confusing for me
I wanted more process less theory.
Very hard to read and follow for me. Deborah