ARTH 347: ARTH 347: Great Masters’ Materials Great Masters’ Materials

and Techniquesand Techniques

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Library ResourcesLibrary Resources Library Catalog: books, e-books, videos, etc.

Research Databases: Art Fulltext* JSTOR*Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature

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The Magdalen Reading (before 1438)Rogier van der Weyden

Oil on mahogany transferred from another panel

Possible search terms:Possible search terms:• Panel painting• Northern Renaissance• Flemish• Netherlandish• Rogier van der Weyden• Altarpiece• Oil paint• Robert Campin (studied in his workshop)• 15th century• Painting and conservation

Panel PaintingPanel Painting (Medium)(Medium)

Analysis of the artists' working practices & techniques • Chemistry of Renaissance materials• Technical & artistic process of building paint onto panel surface (layering primings & pigments)•Author has book on Rogier van der Weyden

Archival & technical discoveries help to understand circumstances under which complex paintings were made

Investigate Further…Investigate Further…Northern vs Southern Northern vs Southern

oil vs. temperaoil vs. temperaPart 4 Influence: Technique and Visual Effect

Technical investigations reveal how panels were made, how tempera & oil paint were used together & how designs were repeated with templates. Discoveries under-drawings & gold application.

Try more search terms…Try more search terms… Renaissance AND Technique Art technique AND History Workshop practices Renaissance painting

Making Renaissance ArtEdited by Kim W. Woods

St Luke Drawing the Virgin By Rogier van der Weyden (on cover of book)

Researching an Artist:Researching an Artist:Robert CampinRobert Campin

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The Annunciation Triptych (ca. 1425) by Robert Campin and Assistant South Netherlandish, active by 1406, died 1444, Made in Tournai

Oil on wood; Central panel with wingsThe Cloisters Collection http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/ho/08/euwl/ho_56.70.htm

Robert Campin Master of Flémalle

Flemish Netherlandish

Panel painting Altarpiece OR Triptych

Oil paint Northern Renaissance

Notable works like Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Related artists like Rogier van der Weyden

Restoration and Restoration and ConservationConservation

“Temptation and Expulsion” By Michelangelo Buonarroti

Sistine Chapel ceilingFresco

Restoration comparisons of Eve

Image from ARTstor

Investigating issues of conservation and restorationconservation and restoration provides invaluable insight into artist materials and techniques.

Restoration & Conservation:Restoration & Conservation:Panel PaintingPanel Painting

Madonna and Child (c 1460)Rogier van der Weydenoil on panel transferred to canvas and relaid on panel,http://www.huntington.org/ArtDiv/VanDerWeydenPict.html

The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings by Kathleen Dardes Los Angeles : Getty Conservation Institute, c1998.

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Examples: Painting and technique (Drawing and technique…) Painting and conservationPainting and conservation Panel Painting FrescoFresco Egg tempera Oil painting Manuscripts Stained glass Name of artist Name of artwork

Upper Basilica of St. Francis, Assisi, ItalyRestoration efforts after 1999 earthquake

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Art—Technique• Painting—Technique • Drawing—Technique

Artists' materials• Ex: Pigments

Chiaroscuro Art—conservation and restoration

• Painting—conservation and restoration Artists' preparatory studies Mural painting and decoration (for wall painting)

Scene of Witchcraft, 1510Hans Baldung Grien (German)

Chiaroscuro woodcut in 2 blocksMet Museum

Selected Reference BooksSelected Reference Books The artist's handbook of materials and techniques

REF ND1500 .M35 1991

The Artist's manual: equipment, materials, techniques REF N 7430 .A74 1988

Methods & materials of painting of the great schools and masters REF ND50 .E2 2001

Encyclopedia of the picture: how to understand paintings REF ND1471 .E53 2004

Techniques of the world's great painters REF ND 1471 .T4 1997

Techniques of the great masters of art REF ND 1500 .T34 1996

More Reference BooksMore Reference Books Painting conservation catalog REF ND 1640 .P14 1998

Conservation concerns: a guide for collectors and curators REF AM 141 .C64 1992

Conservation of wall paintings REF ND 2552 .M6713 1984

The restoration of paintings REF N1650 .N53 1999

Art: the critics' choice: 150 masterpieces of western art REF N 72.5 .A78 1999

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Oil on WoodOil on WoodPicture's unfinished state providesinsight into artist's painting technique. 1. Underdrawing sketched into the gesso2. Pentimenti showing artist removed 3rd tree

“The Sacrifice of Isaac” (1527) by Andrea del SartoSee working methods of Florentine painter during High Renaissance.

Image & information from ARTstorOriginal in Cleveland Museum of Art

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