Main entry:

Theophilus, Presbyter, active 12th century.

Title & Author:

On divers arts : the foremost medieval treatise on painting, glassmaking, and metalwork / Theophilus ; translated from the Latin with introduction and notes by John G. Hawthorne and Cyril Stanley Smith.

Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1979.

Description:

xxxv, 216 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Translation of: De diversis artibus.
"An unabridged and corrected republication of the work originally published in 1963 by the University of Chicago Press."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index.
Introduction. The author, the manuscripts, and the editions ; The place of the treatise in the literature of the practical arts -- The treatise. List of chapters ; Translation. Book I : The art of the painter ; Book II : The art of the worker in glass ; Book III : The art of the metalworker.

Summary:

"On Divers Arts, c. 1122, is the oldest extant manual on artistic crafts to be written by a practicing artist ... On Divers Arts describes actual 12-century techniques in painting, glass, and metalwork ... This translation of the medieval manuscript most essential to an understanding of pre-Renaissance art and technology is the result of a collaboration between a Latin scholar and a metallurgist. Their fully annotated edition presents complete bibliographic and biographic data, with 18 illustrations of surviving work in the manner of Theophilus, including examples by the Benedictine monk Roger of Helmarshausen, who appears to be the true author using a Byzantine pseudonym"-- Back cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0486237842 (paperback)
9780486237848 (paperback)

Subject:

Art Early works to 1800.
Christian art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500 Early works to 1800.
Technology Early works to 1800.
Art Ouvrages avant 1800.
Technologie Ouvrages avant 1800.
Art
Christian art and symbolism Medieval
Technology
Christian art Medieval, 500-1500 Early works to 1800.
Art metal-work Early works to 1800
Glass manufacture Early works to 1800

Form/genre:

Early works to 1800.
Early works

Added entries:

Hawthorne, John G., translator, writer of introduction, writer of added commentary.
Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992, translator, writer of introduction, writer of added commentary.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193054
Call No.: ID N7420.T413; ID:97-B4114
Status: Available