Books
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Anatomy
A Manual of Artistic Anatomy: For the Use of Sculptors, Painters, and Amateurs
Robert Knox ☆
An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artsts
Ellenberger, Baum, Dittrich
Henry Gray ☆
Victor Perard ☆
Henry Leidel (jr.) ☆
Animal Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form
Eliot Goldfinger
Dr.Paul Richer
Édouard Cuyer
Anatomy of the Human Figure For Artists
Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist
Stephen Rogers Peck
An Artistic Treatise on the Human Figure: Containing Hints on ...
Henry Warren ☆
George B. Bridgman ☆
Andrew Loomis
Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form
Eliot Goldfinger
New Artistic Anatomy: Female Morphology
Dr. Paul Richer
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Struttura Uomo Manuale di Anatomia Artistica Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
Neri Pozza
The Human Machine The Anatomical Structure & Mechanism Of The Human Body
George. B. Bridgman
John H. Vanderpoel ☆
Art History
19th Century Painters and Painting: A Dictionary
Geraldine Norman
A History of French painting from its earliest to its latest practice
Clara Cornelia Harrison Stranahan ☆
Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition
Gabriel P. Weisberg
Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century
Rafael Cardoso, Colin Trodd
The Art of the Salon: The Triumph of 19th-Century Painting
Norbert Wolf
The Academy and French Painting in the 19th Century
Albert Boime
Art of the Actual: Naturalism and Style in Early Third Republic France, 1880-1900
Richard Thomson
Exhibition of the Royal Academy ☆
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Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme
Fanny Field Hering☆
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Gods and Heroes: Masterpieces from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Emmanuel Schwartz
Lectures on Painting: Delivered at the Royal Academy ☆
Nineteenth-Century European Painting: From Barbizon to Belle Époque
William Rau
The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Emmanuel Schwartz
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The life of an artist : an autobiography
Jules Breton☆
The Russian School of Painting
Alexandre Benois
R. H. Ives Gammell
Cristopher Wood
Painting/Drawing
John Collier ☆
Drawing in charcoal and crayon
Frank Fowler ☆
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Compendium a l'usage des artistes peintres
Jacques Blockx ☆
John Ruskin ☆
The Painter's Methods and Materials
A. P. Laurie ☆
The Practice of Oil Painting and of Drawing...
Solomon Joseph Solomon ☆
Jehan Georges Vibert ☆
The Theory and Practice of Painting...
Theodore Henry Fielding ☆
Oil Painting Techniques and Materials
Harold Speed☆
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Oil Painting: A Handbook for the Use of Students and Schools
Frank Fowler☆
Rex Vicat Cole ☆
The Elements of Drawing and the Elements of Perspective
John Ruskin☆
Max Doerner
The Practice and Science of Drawing
Harold Speed☆
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The Training of the Memory in Art and the Education of the Artist
Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran☆
New Manuals
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Advice on Painting from John Singer Sargent
Thomas Jefferson Kitts
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The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques: Fifth Edition, Revised and Updated
Ralph Mayer
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter
James Gurney
Cast Drawing Using the Sight-Size Approach
Darren R. Rousar
Charles Bargue and Jean-Léon Gérôme
Gerald Ackerman, Graydon Parrish
Classical Life Drawing Studio: Lessons & Teachings in the Art of Figure Drawing
James Lancel McElhinney
Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice
Juliette Aristides
Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice
Juliette Aristides
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Drawing Atelier - The Figure: How to Draw in a Classical Style
Jon DeMartin
Lessons in Classical Drawing: Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier
Juliette Aristides
Nicholas Beer
The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective On the Classical Tradition
Anthony Ryder
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Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present
Color Theory/Pigment History/Materials
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c. 1600-1835
R.D. Harley ☆
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The Enjoyment and Use of Color
Walter Sargent
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Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopedia
Gettens, Stout
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Tad Spurgeon
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Composition
Command to Look, The : A Master Photographer's Method for Controlling the Human Gaze
Mortensen, Dunham, Moynihan ☆
Composition: A Series of Exercises Selected from a New System of Art Education
Arthur Wesley Dow ☆
Richard G. Hatton☆
Landscape and Figure Composition
Sadakichi Hartmann ☆
Henry Rankin Poore ☆
Landscape
Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
John F. Carlson
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Composition of Outdoor Painting
Edgar Payne
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Birge Harrison ☆
Rex Vicat Cole ☆
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The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour
Sir Alfred East ☆
J.D. Harding ☆
Sculpture