A book about art, or a treatise on painting. Textbook for SPO. Chennini Ch.

The Book of Art is written by the Italian artist of the late XIV century Chennino Chennini. Biographical information about him is extremely scarce, but from the text of the treatise you can find out that the artist studied at the workshop of Andolo Gaddi, one of the later followers of Giotto.

Channini’s treatise in the field of technology, as it were, sums up the Italian Trechento. Almost all chapters of the book are devoted to the problems of craft and their practical solution. The author tells how to prepare materials; how to make preparatory drawings; how to write in different techniques; how to apply and polish gold; How to paint fabrics and make casts, etc. The treatise was already known during the time of Vazari, but published for the first time in Italy in 1821.

The publication will be interesting to students and teachers of artistic social secrecy, as well as for a wide range of people fond of fine art.