Below are colour versions(from Wiki-commons) of some of the featured artworks and some references from the Value, Light and Shade Workbook
Ancient ceramic pot designs
An Illustration for Virgil, Roman poet, circa 30 BCE
THE TRES RICHES HEURES - (The very rich hours of the Duc of Berry) An Illustration that is the most famous and possibly the best surviving example of manuscript illumination, made between c. 1412 and 1416 forthe Duke of Berry who commissioned the Limbourg Brothers .
Portrait of Shah Jahangir created by Abu al-Hasan in 1617 - At 1.8m-high, life-size portrait of Mughal emperor Jahangir, isconsidered to be the rarest and most desirable 17th-century painting ever to go for auction. not actually an illumination as such, however, the decorative metallic elements place it in a similar category to the illuminations of the Christian tradition. Pure Light was often depicted with precious metals such as gold.
Michaelangelo’s Cistine Chapel
The Matchmaker, Gerrit van Honthorst, 1625 -0 a good example of chiaroscuro, one of the four canons oif Renaissance painting
The Art of Painting , Johannes Vermeer, 1666-68
Colour reference for one value exercise
Oath of the Horatii , Jacques-Louis David , 1784
Whistler - ‘Nocturne in black and gold’ - 1895
Self-Portrait (Sick Man), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1918.
Woman with a Hat (Femme au chapeau), 1905 by Henri Matisse
‘Impression Sunrise’ - Claude Monet, 1872 (gave the Impressionists their name)
Fog, Voisins, Alfred Sisley, 1874
Colour version of image for Notan pages in Workbook
Picasso portrait by Jean Gris, 1912
Still Life with Guitar, Juan Gris, 1913
Bowl of fruit, Violin and Bottle, Picasso, 1914
Young Mother Sewing - Mary Cassat
