Pouncing – Video
The technique requires the sheet to be placed on the surface and then beaten with a bag containing coal dust (or a colored pigment) along the perforated outline of the drawing itself.
Tracing – Video
Tracing has been one of the most popular techniques to transfer a drawing to a new support without changing its scale. Already used in the Thirteenth – Fourteenth Century workshops, the system is well attested throughout the Renaissance …
Perspectographs – Video
The tools used to verify the correct two-dimensional representation of forms in physical space used from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century.
The darkroom – Video
Darkroom, a more or less complex optical device that allows the painter to translate the complexity of a three-dimensional figure on a two-dimensional surface.
Squaring – Video
The squaring, a system of carrying over the drawing, mostly aimed at its enlargement, based on the ratio of the squares measured on the original and those traced to scale …
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