About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 136. Chapters: Illuminated manuscripts, Notebooks, History of painting, Papyrus, Codex, Balthasar Behem Codex, List of illuminated manuscripts, Miniature, Anthony Roll, Persian miniature, Fiore dei Liberi, Liber feudorum maior, List of illuminated Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, Open Notebook Science, Scroll, Preservation of illuminated manuscripts, List of medieval bestiaries, Egyptian medical papyri, Sketchbook, Rubrication, Classmate Stationery, List of Hiberno-Saxon illustrated manuscripts, Lectionary 300, Liber feudorum Ceritaniae, Electronic lab notebook, Books of Remembrance, Birch bark document, Bellifortis, Facsimile, Police notebook, Ring binder, Pecha, Turnsole, Hortus deliciarum, Fraktur, Armenian illuminated manuscript, Fore-edge painting, Diary, Rajput painting, Book of Ballymote, The Book of the Burkes, Inventor's notebook, Purple parchment, Palm-leaf manuscript, Composition book, King Rene's Tournament Book, Bamboo and wooden slips, Personal organizer, Big Chief tablet, Ornamental initial. Excerpt: The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted tradition from Antiquity. Across cultures, and spanning continents and millennia, the history of painting is an ongoing river of creativity, that continues into the 21st century. Until the early 20th century it relied primarily on representational, religious and classical motifs, after which time more purely abstract and conceptual approaches gained favor. Developments in Eastern painting historically parallel those in Western painting, in general, a few centuries earlier. African art, Islamic art, Indian art, Chinese art, and Japanese art each had significant influence on Western art, and, eventually, vice-versa. Initially serving utilitarian purpose, followed by...
