Giovanni Fattori – The macchiaioli technique
Giovanni Fattori’s technique involves a drawing executed directly on the surface of the wood without any preparation. The support is often obtained from cigar boxes …
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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 …
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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