On divers arts : the foremost medieval treatise on painting, glassmaking, and metalwork
Theophilus, John G. Hawthorne (Translator, Writer of introduction, Writer of added commentary), Cyril Stanley Smith (Translator, Writer of introduction, Writer of added commentary)
"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
Print Book, English, 1979
Dover Publications, New York, 1979