Caravaggio – The Seventeenth Century technique in Italy
There is a close relationship between the ground preparation and the technique of applying the color. With the spread of the free canvas on the stretcher support, this relationship …
Tiziano – Oil painting on canvas
Paintings on canvas were already fairly widespread in the Fifteenth Century: while in Italy Cennino Cennini had already described the way to give an adequate preparation to the canvas with a …
Crivelli – Mixed media
The use of a mixed technique can be recognized for most of the paintings between the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: in fact, if we define the paintings whose only binder is egg yolk as “egg tempera” …
Botticelli – The tempera grassa
The transition from egg tempera to oil technique was, unlike what is usually thought, particularly slow and gradual and meant much more …
Van Eyck – Oil painting in Flanders
Flemish painting of the Fifteenth Century is characterized by a limpid and glazed material obtained by successive superimpositions of thin mixtures. The oil binder …
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