Old master and academic art curriculum

[FallenGodX11]

I am trying to find some books and internet references on the education of the old masters and academic artists to know what they knew about painting and drawing. If anyone has some resources like internet sites, books, and etc. I will be interested. Also if anyone has some idea of what the old master or academic art curriculum contains I will appreciate it.

[hitnrun]

Well, I know Joseph Sheppard is one member of the 4th generation of people carrying on the tradition of the Old Masters style. You could check out his books. They're pretty good, and they give a lot of information about anatomy. Also, a curriculum about the Old Masters style would probably revolve around learning to use oils, learning how to best set up to paint, practicing Trompe L'oiel, and pretty much reproducing their works. I personally would expect it to be really hands on. I have a vermeer reproduced, and I'm working on another one - although the one I'm currently working on is a MUCH smaller painting.

[Maxine Schacker]

http://www.essentialvermeer.comtechnique/technique_overview.htm
https://store.studioproducts.com/help.php?section=contactus

Here are two sites that will help. There isn't one technique. They all understood visual language and explored the medium to find a way to communicate their vision.

They all created individual styles. You can tell one person's work from another's. However, they understood composition and design, basics of drawing (perspective, structural drawing, positive and negative space, planar construction, modeling, tonal pattern, basic color theory with an emphasis on warm and cool).

You are learning an art. That's a minimum of ten years of study and no easy answers. The goal is to have a vision and the means to express it.