Anyone who has ever looked at a medieval painting and marvelled at the brilliance and quality that have endured over 500 years will find this book of great interest. It embodies the secrets and techniques of the great masters, and describes the lost arts of painting such as gilding stone, coloring parchment, making goat glue, and more. Offering instructions on how to make green drapery, black for monks’ robes, trees and plants, etc., the reader may well be tempted to experiment with the methods given for both his own amusement and curiosity. This book is great for artists and the general reader alike, and when we remember the magnificent mosaics, paintings, and frescoes these methods produced, it takes on an even greater value as a touchstone to another age.