The Painter's Secret Geometry

The Painter's Secret Geometry"This is an outstanding text for teachers and students." The Studio This richly illustrated examination of visual arts in the European tradition shows how the great masters employed the "golden mean" and other geometrical patterns to compose their paintings. Author Charles Bouleau explores a tremendous variety of ancient and modern works: the Parthenon friezes, Italian mosaics, the Bayeux Tapestry, and Gothic stonemasons' marks of France and Germany

and this impulse is fueled by Milam's splendidly eccentric handbook

give birth

English and French kings

Reprinted from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition

including the great auk

mystical journey

make these plates true works of art in their own right

excellently reproduced from rare copies of Sears catalogs

and fancy twills

swedish king

Louisiana Zouaves (1861)

make a powerful statement of the enduring power about war on an artist-soldier's psyche