HUM 145 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Lapis Lazuli, Fra Angelico, Calcium Hydroxide
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It is not our purpose to make known in detail all the pictorial techniques, which alone would be the subject of a single and extensive specialized study, but to record their existence throughout the history of art. It should be noted that the pictorial technique has multiple modalities within some large sections that we will try to define. Each artist has his technique, which if it is easy to know today, in antiquity it was jealously guarded as the invariant of each artist. In prehistory, charcoal, pigments based on iron -red- and manganese -black- were used, and sporadically, blood and casein, all of them mixed with animal fat that fulfilled the function of a binder. Tempering, fresco and encaustic are three techniques that began in the ancient greco-roman and. The tempering technique has multiple formulations and was used as a mural painting procedure.
