eprintid: 5407
rev_number: 17
eprint_status: archive
userid: 4
dir: disk0/00/00/54/07
datestamp: 2017-10-23 10:44:35
lastmod: 2017-10-27 09:04:34
status_changed: 2017-10-23 10:44:35
type: bookPart
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Sammern, Romana
title: "Painting upon the life": Colour knowledge and colour practice in English art writing and cosmetic treatises of the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries
subjects: ddc-750
divisions: i-9
cterms_swd: England
cterms_swd: Malerei
cterms_swd: Traktat
cterms_swd: Kosmetik <Motiv>
cterms_swd: Farbgestaltung
cterms_swd: Geschichte 1598-1665
abstract: The English verb >to paint< means both, painting with (oil) colors on panel and painting with cosmetics on the human face. Accordingly, English treatises on painting have discussed cosmetics since the late 16th century, like Richard Haydocke in his famous translation of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzos treatise on painting. Likewise, treatises on cosmetics analogized painting panels and painting faces. The paper analyzes how English cosmetic treatises of the 17th century dealt with color. Alongside practical color recipes and treatises on painting and cosmetic, it discusses if these writings talked about colors in terms of artisan production or aesthetic theory. However, the paper focuses on the question of the materials employed, i. e. the pigments described, their local or imported origin and the traditional or industrial nature of their production.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2015
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/artdok.00005407
ppn_swb: 1656737167
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-54077
language: eng
bibsort: SAMMERNROMPAINTINGUP2015
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Berlin
pagerange: 179-198
book_title: Colour histories : science, art, and technology in the 17th and 18th centuries
editors_name: Bushart, Magdalena
laender: LGb
themen: T14
oa_type: green
citation:   Sammern, Romana  (2015) "Painting upon the life": Colour knowledge and colour practice in English art writing and cosmetic treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.   In: Bushart, Magdalena (Hrsg.):  Colour histories : science, art, and technology in the 17th and 18th centuries.   Berlin 2015, pp. 179-198        
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/5407/1/Sammern_Painting_upon_the_life_2015.pdf