ARTH 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Inpainting, Hugo Van Der Goes, Fra Angelico
27 Sep 2016
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The making of early renaissance art and its survival. Diagram of a tempera panel dissected to show layers: wooden panel (poplar, gesso (plaster), sometimes reinforced with linen, underdrawing, gold lead, underpainting, final layers of tempera [hartt 1. 13] Simone martini and lippo memmi, annunciation with two saints, 1333 (uffizi gallery, florence) egg tempera paint and gilding, gesso ground, poplar panel support, not the original frame (19th century replacement [hartt 4. 17] Similar tempera painting and gilding techniques still used 100 years later: fra angelico, annunciation and scenes from the life of the virgin, c. 1432-34 (cortona, diocesan museum) [hartt 9. 1] As many as 30 layers over 1 spot of painting. Hugo van der goes, portinari altarpiece, 1475-76, florence, uffizi. No more gilding by mid-15th century in flanders; instead illusion of gilding and gold-thread textiles created fully in oil paint, using many thin layers of oil glazes to build up effects.
