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 ...