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The Secret Formulas and Techniques of the Masters

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Jacques Maroger, was the former Technical Director of the Laboratory of the Louvre Museum and President of the Resources of France prior to emigrating to the United States in 1939. Maroger spent most his life painting while he rediscovered the secret painting mediums used by the Old Masters. His medium, made from cook oils saturated with lead and combined with mastic resin, will give your paintings the inner light of the early Dutch Masters. If you are a realist painter, there is no paint medium found today that matches the brilliance of Jacques techniques and formulas. For the student, Maroger's flair for a motivating treatise is a must read

An excellent book of rare and unique intelligence into the drawing and painting techniques of the Old Masters. It's unusual to find a book by a knowledgeable painter, chemist, historian who was also well connected to some very good painters of the 19th century. As painter himself he actually practiced what he preached and his writings are based on his empirical insights. It shouldn't be out of print as I am continually asked by painters how to get a copy of it.

After hemming and hawing of the price, I finally bought the book, and was it ever worth it. People always talk about the maroger mediums, but this book is soooooo much more. I already knew the mediums, it was all the other information packed around them that make this book worth every penny. It is now my most valuable book (and second most costly). And, as the title says, now it is my secret.