Vasari on Technique: Being the Introduction to the Three Arts of Design

Here are the great craftsman and biographer's full, readable discussions of architecture: orders; pavements; planning and design; modelling in wax and clay; tools and materials used in marble carving; bronze figures; painting; foreshortening; coloring; fresco; tempera; gilding; stained glass windows; niello work, and work. 29 illustrations.