Looking at Paintings: A Guide to Technical Terms, Revised Edition CAAMEMBER This is the sixth in

This is the sixth in a series of books that document the vast collection of Greek vases in the Getty Museum

but also describe how these groups interacted with one another across the sea

Shorter texts highlight new acquisitions and discoveries in the collections and focus on the diverse tools for scholarship being developed at the Research Institute

ISBN 978-0-89236-852-5

Michel Draguet

Looking at Paintings: A Guide to Technical Terms, Revised Edition CAAMEMBER This is the sixth inTiarna Doherty and Anne T. Woollett What is tempera? What is foreshortening? What is fresco? These termsand more than 100 othersare explained and illustrated in Looking at Paintings. First published in 1992, Looking at Paintingsnow thoroughly revised and expandedpresents concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most often encountered by museum goers. This new edition pays special attention to the processes and methods of paintings