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Europe 1300 - 1800
Unit 3: Lesson 1
A beginner's guide- How to recognize Italian Renaissance art
- Tiny timelines: global Europe
- Napoleon’s appropriation of Italian cultural treasures
- The study of anatomy
- Contrapposto explained
- Florence in the Early Renaissance
- Alberti’s revolution in painting
- Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi's Experiment
- How one-point linear perspective works
- Early Applications of Linear Perspective
- Linear perspective interactive
- Images of African Kingship, Real and Imagined
- A primer for Italian renaissance art
- Introduction to gender in renaissance Italy
- The Italian renaissance court artist
- Female artists in the renaissance
- The role of the workshop in Italian renaissance art
- Humanism in renaissance Italy
- Humanism in Italian renaissance art
- Why commission artwork during the renaissance?
- Types of renaissance patronage
- Renaissance Watercolours: materials and techniques
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Renaissance Watercolours: materials and techniques
By the Victoria & Albert Museum. Focusing on the three types of object featured in the V&A display Renaissance Watercolours: illuminated manuscripts, portrait miniatures and coloured drawings, this film showcases the qualities that made watercolour the medium of choice for many artists during the Renaissance. A modern-day painting of a pomegranate, using traditional watercolour techniques, by artist Lucy Smith, also demonstrates how watercolour painting remains a versatile medium, ideal for capturing life-like details that help us to record our diverse world. Find out more: vam.ac.uk/renaissance-watercolours.
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why did they use oyster shells to hold the pigments and paints?(1 vote)
It wasn't anything special about the material. It was their ubiquity, size and shape. Oyster shells are plentiful and cheap. After one has eaten the animal that grew in it, the shell is free! An oyster shell fits comfortably in the hand that is not holding the brush. An oyster shell is like a cup, so stuff doesn't run off of it.(2 votes)
why do. they use pigments.(1 vote)- "pigments" are the parts of paint that give it color. "Paint" is just something into which to add pigments and bind them to the surface upon which it is applied. "Paint" is, essentially, colorless. Without pigments, "Paint" is like oil, or shellac, or egg yolks, or water.(1 vote)