Contents

Contents : rock paintings (prehistoric techniques and materials); painting on papyrus (the invention of paper); decorating pottery (the techniques of Ancient Greece); painting on wood (the techniques of the Middle Ages); The beauty of Silk (Chinese art and calligraphy); paint and plaster (the art of painting frescoes); mixing colours with oil (the invention of oil paints); painting on canvas (portable paintings); the art of drawing (ink, charcoal, pencils, pastels ...); painting with water (the art of the watercolourist); paint in tubes (oil painting in the open air); tools of today (twentieth-century techniques); Looking after paintings (conservation and restoration); a painted world (painting everywhere on everything); finding out more (art movements and styles; famous artists; useful words); index; timeline;