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"Methods and Techniques of Painting in Early 15th Century Italy"

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From: v081lu33 at ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (TRISTAN CLAIR DE LUNE/KEN MONDSCHEIN)

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

Subject: RENAISSANCE PAINTING

Date: 1 May 1995 06:51:33 GMT

Organization: University at Buffalo

                               

                    Methods and Techniques

                              of

                           Painting

                              in

                   Early 15th Century Italy

 

 

                        I: Introduction

 

     Though much scholarly attention has been paid to the

composition, subject matter, and rhetoric of the masterworks of

the early Quintociento in Florence, particularly as to how these

works and their philosophy foreshadowed the developments of the

High Renaissance, there has been comparatively little written on

how the works were physically created-- the techniques and

materials used, the methods of work, and even the sources of

patronage.

 

     Such a study would be significant and worthwhile for a

multitude of reasons. Besides being interesting in its own right,

on the most practical level, it would aid in the conservation of

such works, thus helping to preserve them for posterity. However,

it would also help to add to our understanding of the works, for

it places us in the position of the master who painted them and

allows us to see their meaning from his point of view. In other

words, it shows the work in the light of a far wider social,

economic, and artistic perspective-- not only the what of the

philosophy behind the art, but also the why. For instance, we

know that the Virgin Mary's mantle is traditionally blue, but how

was this deep shade of azure achieved, and what is its

significance?

 

     In the process of learning this, the developing thought of

the world of the Italian Renaissance is illustrated, not only as

reflected in the art of the time, but in the mind of the painter

and his world. The idea is parallel to what Edwin Panofsky

referred to in a broad humanistic manner as "mental habits" in

his essay Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism in reference to

the connection between the architecture of the Gothic cathedral

and the Scholastic philosophical tradition. By exposing the

underlying techniques used by the artists, the methods that

underpinned the visual development of the works themselves, and

the artist's world, we witness physical testimony to the trends

in thought. It is the intention of this paper to provide an

expository introduction to this, and, in this context, shed light

upon the interlinked artistic and mundane worlds of the Italian

Renaissance.

 

     For the sake of brevity, we will focus on the three major

forms of work in early fifteenth century Florence, Mainly, the

concern will be with panel painting, though we will of necessity

touch upon the miniatures of illuminated manuscripts and the

fresco. The reason for discussing these three is self-evident, as

a master who worked on one of these was likely to also produce

two or three of the forms. Notably, the artist known to us as Fra

Angelico provides an excellent illustration of this. Though we

can only briefly touch on his significance (a task of volumes

itself), Fra Angelico and his work will hopefully serve as an

exempla for some of the techniques discussed herein.

 

              II: Fra Angelico and Panel Painting

 

     Before the popularity of oil and canvas paintings, panel

painting was an art form of prime importance in early Renaissance

Italy. From the Byzantines, the Italians had inherited the custom

of decorating their churches with icons of saints and the Holy

Family. These icons, placed over the altarpiece, were objects of

veneration and supplication, carried on processions and used, in

many ways, as a focus of civic pride and identification. Many

were also executed for private individuals as objects of

veneration or meditation.

 

     From the art historian's point of view, many of these panel

commissions still survive, and are excellent examples of the

trends in art of the time. One of the most famous artists of the

period to work in this medium was Guido di Pietro, who changed

his name to Fra Giovanni upon becoming a friar of  the Observant

branch of the Dominican order, but who is best known as Fra

Angelico.

 

     Born in about 1400 (probably before), Angelico was

recognized in his own time as one of the finest painters of his

generation. He was, by all accounts, a man of great faith and

piety. This spirituality is reflected in the ephemeral quality of

the figures in his paintings. Even before entering the monastery

at Fiesole in about 1420, Angelico had been a member of a

religious confraternity, probably that of St. Luke, who was the

patron saint of doctors and painters and whose members were

largely drawn from the guild of the Medici e Speciali, to which

painters and illuminators belonged.

 

     The notion of a monk holding a secular job or taking

commissions from outside the walls of the monastery may seem

strange to the modern reader, but such an occurrence was nothing

unusual in early fifteenth century Italy. The brothers of the

various orders around Florence often participated in the outside

world, especially as painters and illuminators, with all profits

going to the monastery. This was symptomatic of, and perhaps even

helped to build, the developing idea of the "active life" as not

inferior to the "contemplative life." A strong work ethic has

been with the monastic tradition ever since St. Benedict wrote

that a monk ought to engage in gainful toil. The notion that this

might have germinated or given support to Salutati and Brunei's

writings on the vita activa is a very logical and intriguing one.

 

     Angelico was greatly influenced in his work by Masaccio, as

is especially shown by his use of perspective and placement of

figures in a realistic space.1 Another great influence was

Lorenzo Monaco, in whose workshop it is speculated that Angelico

trained.2 As Strehlke points out in his essay in Painting and

Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, Angelico's Penitent

St. Jerome also shows many compositional similarities to the

reliefs on Ghiberti's Porta Paradisi, notably in the humanistic

rendering of the saint set against the flat background against

which he is placed.3 Angelico no doubt would have been familiar

with his contemporary's work, which was displayed on the doors of

the Baptistery, close by the cathedral that was the spiritual and

psychological center of Florence.

 

     The art of panel painting itself is preserved by il Libro

dell'arte, written in Padua by the Tuscan painter Cennino Cennini

in about 1400. Il Libro dell'arte is the only manual of painting

known to exist from this era, and, short of taking apart an

actual tempera painting, is our best primary source. It also

shows the beginnings of the methodological and practical manual

as a literary form, one that would later be echoed by Machiavelli

in his The Prince. As such, it is an example of the humanistic

Renaissance literary tradition.

 

     The first step, naturally, was to obtain the panels upon

which the painting would be executed. This was the job of a

carpenter or cabinet maker. The woods favored for the job were

poplar, linden, or willow, which was finely mortised and sanded

smooth.4 This provided the basic framework on which the painter

spread gesso as a base for the pigments. Gesso is an

extraordinarily sticky and messy mixture of glue (made from

boiling down the hooves and bones of animals) and finely ground

plaster. It dries hard and can be given a smooth polish. Multiple

layers were sometimes used, sometimes with linen cloth added as

an underpinning to give additional structure and support. Cennini

states that this gesso was usually obtained from apothecaries,

though he also gives instructions on how to prepare it oneself.5

Again, we see the dependence of the painter upon other

specialized professions, reflecting the urban world in which he,

by necessity, dwelt and which could not help but to influence his

art.

 

     The next stage was to trace the basic elements of the

paintings onto the gessoed panel. These were usually done using

preliminary sketches as a guide. Like artists today, Florentine

painters had various sorts of sketches, from rough compositions

to detailed figures studies. Due to their relative lack of

importance to everyone save art historians, as well as the wear

and tear that they were put through, few of these survive.

Frederick Hart speculates in the section on tempera painting in

his History of Italian Renaissance Art that such standard objects

as crucifixes were drawn directly to the panel, while detailed

figure studies were sketched or studied in detail.6 Another

likely possibility is that painters worked from pattern books, as

medieval illuminators did (such as the sketchbook of Villard de

Honnecourt).

 

     Sketches were transferred to the panel either visually, or,

by the mid-fifteenth century, by a technique called spolvero, or

"dusting." A full-scale drawing of details or complex figures was

made, with the outlines pricked out with a stylus. The back was

then brushed with charcoal dust, and the raised outlines

transferred by patting the front side down with a sponge. Though

no spolvero remains today, we can sometimes make out the dotted

outlines on period works.7 This technique was later replaced by

the cartoon, a full-scale representation of the finished work

which was transferred by means of tracing with a stylus.

 

     In his book, Cennini instructs that the underdrawing should

be executed by means of a piece of charcoal tied to a reed or

stick, so as to gain a greater vantage upon the whole work while

composing. Again, we see a practical, step-by-step guide to the

creation of a work of art, a technique which had traditionally

been passed down by apprenticeship. The charcoal sketch could

then be erased by means of a feather, which allowed the artist to

modify his design if elements did not please him. Finally, the

underdrawing was completed by going over the charcoal with a

brush made from the hair of a minever (squirrel) dipped in an

ink-and-water wash. The charcoal was erased, the drapery folds

were shaded in, and so was some of the shading. What was left was

the basic form of the painting.8

 

 

                         Bibliography

 

Primary Sources:

 

     Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting (Della Pittura, trans.

John Spencer). Yale University Press: New Haven. 1966.

 

     Cennini, Cennino D'Andrea. The Craftsman's Handbook ((Il

Libro dell'Arte, trans. Daniel V. Thompson). Yale University

Press: New York. 1933.

 

Tertiary Sources:

 

     Alexander, Jonathan J.G. Medieval Illuminators and their

Methods of Work. Yale    University Press: New Haven. 1992.

    

     Hart, Frederick. Italian Renaissance Art. Prentice Hall,Inc: New York. 1987

 

     Painting and Illumination In Early Renaissance Florence. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York. 1994.

  

 

1     Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 26

2     Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 31

3     Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 27

4     Cennini, The Craftsman's Handbook 71

5     Cennini, 73

6     Hart, History of Italian Renaissance Art, 35

7     Hart, 35

8     Cennini, 75

 

     Following the underdrawing, the next stage was to add the

gilding. Many early Renaissance paintings feature gold

backgrounds for a number of reasons, though this style was

beginning to change in the period under consideration. Gold was

aesthetically pleasing to the eye, a symbol of the wealth of the

patron, and alchemically considered the highest of metals, being

associated with the sun. It also represented an undifferentiated

infinitude for the background of religious paintings, thus

suggesting heaven. The growing trend in such works, though, was

to replace the gold background with backgrounds that placed the

figures in realistic space and perspective. This had a tendency

of bringing them down to a human level, and is exemplified by

Masaccio's Trinity fresco in Sta. Maria Novella. It is also

evident in the vast majority of Fra Angelico's work, notably the

San Marco altarpiece, which was itself completed by Angelico's

fellow artist Lorenzo Monaco and was influenced by Alberti's

treatise on perspective.1

 

     The gold leaf was pounded flat into thin sheets, probably by

a goldsmith, and applied with a red glue called bole. In his

manual Cennini goes into depth on the fine and meticulous art of

applying delicate gold leaf to a panel, even specifying the best

sort of weather to perform such work in.2

 

     The actual painting was begun with what Hart calls the

underpainting, which was executed in terra verde (green paint

made from colored earth). The colors themselves were carried by a

medium of egg tempera, which is the white of eggs (albumen)

beaten until it is smooth. Egg tempera dries rapidly into a

protein polymer, and is very permanent. Another medium was

linseed oil, which was prepared by boiling and letting it stand.

Cennini speaks of it in reference to fresco paintings as well as

in panel paintings. Oil paints came to be of prime importance in

the later fifteenth century, as canvas began to replace wood as

the medium of choice for artists and patrons. The oil paints were

also used on wall paintings, according to Cennini's manual, but

Hart specifies that a water medium was used on frescos.3

 

     The pigments were made of ground minerals found naturally,

such as hematite (which gives a red color) or the terra verde, or

materials prepared by an alchemist, such as the verdigis for

green. Cennini goes into great detail on the ration of the

paints, which takes up an entire section of his manual.4 The

painter's grinding of his own pigments is quite possibly reason

why they were members of the guild of the Medici e Speciali, as

doctors and alchemists, too, ground their minerals and medicines.

 

     One particularly important pigment which merits especial

mention is the ultramarine blue, the production of which took a

long, involved alchemical process that lasted days. The raw

material was  lapis lazuli stone, which was imported all the way

from Afghanistan. Cennini speaks of an ounce of high-quality

ultramarine blue as being worth eight ducats5, which makes it

precious indeed. It is this blue which was used for the Virgin's

robe and which astounds even modern viewers with its beautiful

depth of color. It was also this blue which designated Mary as

the Queen of Heaven and which attested to the wealth of the

person who could afford such expensive materials. In the

symbolism of the painting, then, the pigments could carry a great

deal of significance, both because of their spiritual meaning and

their material cost.

 

     Cennini then goes on to give various practical instructions

for the painting of human figures, of clothing and drapery, and

of various natural things such as mountains and water. To create

drapery, he advises cutting the paint with white, thus producing

lighter and darker shades to represent the play of light upon the

folds. Conspicuously absent are any instructions on the painting

of architecture, which poses an intriguing mystery. Either

Cennini thought this so obvious that he thought it redundant to

write about, or else he thought it to be not as important as the

other items.

 

     Equally intriguing are his instructions on the proper bodily

proportions of a well-formed man.6 This seems to be early

documentation of the Renaissance concern for human perfection and

the dignity and perfectibility of man. It shows great concern for

naturalism and the ideals of beauty in this world. In this way,

Cennini shows himself to truly be speaking from the point of view

of the new school of thought. He does not advise exaggerating

figures to show supernatural qualities, rather, he gives steps

towards creating an idea of earthly human beauty. This worldly

concern is also shown by his giving an enormous amount of

instruction on ways to represent various materials and garments.

 

     The final step in the creation of a panel is the varnishing.

Cennini advises the painter to ideally wait a year or more before

performing this task, as the varnish can dim the brilliant colors

of the other temperas. One way to immediately give a painting the

appearance of varnishing is to do it once over with clear egg

tempera.7 However, if the painting is properly varnished, the

effect is striking, for Cennini speaks of the colors of being

fixed permanently and their brilliance magnified.8

 

     The veracity of Cennini's description of the process of

creating a panel painting is borne out by the restoration process

described by Hart in his History of Italian Renaissance Art.9 In

this case, the wood that a Madonna and Child Enthroned with

Saints done by Fra Angelico had been painted upon was rotted, and

the painting had to be transferred to a new panel. Layers of

cheesecloth with a plastic adhesive were layered over the front

of the panel, and the wood and gesso then picked and scraped out.

When this was completed, the only thing remaining of the original

painting was the pigment clinging to the cheesecloth. The ink

underdrawing, terra verde underpainting, and the broad areas of

color under the drapery were revealed, as were the peaks in the

paint where it had filled in the punched patterns caused by the

spolvero technique. The paint veneer was then attached to a new

surface, the adhesive dissolved, and the cheesecloth removed,

resulting in a fully restored painting.

 

                 III: Manuscript Illumination

 

     In the world before the printing press, books were

hand-copied and illuminated. This practice continued to a degree

after Gutenberg's innovation, reaching its last hurrah in the

sixteenth century. Producing a work of this sort was an expensive

proposition, then, both in terms of materials and for the labor

of the skilled artisan who painted the miniatures. Books, be they

psalters, songbooks, or copies of the Aeneid, were often made on

commission for wealthy patrons. Often, such a contract included

room and board for the illuminator.10 These patrons also often

specified what miniatures they wished painted into their books.

Purchasing a book was not only an investment in the world to

come, but a sign of status.

 

     Fra Angelico was not himself primarily an illuminator.

However, despite a widely held belief to the contrary,

perpetrated since the nineteenth century, he did illuminate

manuscripts. The misconception that Angelico was never an

illuminator probably stems from the Victorian attitude that such

an advanced, enlightened painter would never have engaged in such

a "medieval" art form. To the contrary, not only did Angelico

likely work for some time in his monastery's scriptorium (though

we have no concrete proof of this), the man who was his sponsor

for the Confraternity of St. Luke, Battista di Biagio Sanguigni,

was a professional illuminator. Despite all this, Fra Angelico is

always listed in records as having been a painter, not an

illuminator.11

 

1     Spencer, On Painting, 30

2     Cennini, 78-88

3     Hart, 38

4     Cennini, 20-39

5     Cennini, 38

6     Cennini, 48

7     Cennini, 99

8     Cenators and the

9      Spencer, On Painting, 30

10   Cennini, 78-88

11   Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 26

 

     Some of Fra Angelico's miniatures are reproduced in Painting

and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence.1 The examples

shown therein show a kaleidoscopic and sweeping quality to his

work, as if "impatient within the confines"2 of miniatures. His

illumination displays the same radiant colors and placement of

figures in real space that his painting does.

 

     The first step in the production of an illuminated

manuscript, naturally, is to procure the book that is to be

illuminated. In this case, illuminators throughout the Middle

Ages and the Renaissance (and even today) favored vellum, which

is tough, cream-colored parchment made from the scraped and

tanned hides of a calf, kid, or sheep. Vellum has an advantage in

that it is tough and durable and in that it takes pigments well.

The vellum was prepared beforehand by the parchment-maker, and

then purchased by the illuminator or his patron.

 

     The first marks an illuminator made on the parchment was to

rule out the lines of where the text was going to be and where

the miniatures would be drawn. Once this was done, the basic

design would be traced in, using a stylus of metal or bone, or

else a pencil. In this stage, the preliminary underdrawing, was

very much like that employed in panel painting. The layout helped

to define the illustration's relation to the text.3

 

     In the next step, the illuminator would begin the fine work

of coloring the miniatures by means of a color wash, though this

technique is only documented for earlier times and places than

fifteenth century Florence.4 Fra Angelico might very well have

colored the parts to his miniatures almost using the same method

he painted with. The final step was to do the fine details and

outlines of figures and drapery would be added with a miniature

brush and add the gold leaf.

 

     The word "miniature," used as an appellation for the

illustrations on such manuscripts, derives from the minium, or

lead sulfide, that was used to make pigments.5 Minium gives a

brilliant red color. However, like many of the colors Cennini

gives recipes for, it is poisonous. The modern illuminator must

take care with these ancient recipes.

 

     The most interesting thing about miniature painting, though,

is not the actual methods with which the manuscripts were worked

upon. Rather, it is the almost precocious quality that the

composition of the illustrations exhibit. One would expect that

sacred art that, by and large, was executed behind monastery

walls or for wealthy patrons would have a conservative quality to

it. Rather, though, illumination dating as far back as the early

fourteenth century displays figures occupying real space and the

beginnings of the concern for some sort of activity and awareness

of the figures themselves, echoing the quality that was captured

in fresco on the walls of San Francesco in Assisi by the Master

of the St. Cecilia cycle. The best example of this is found in

the Florentine illuminator known as the Master of the Codex of

St. George, which was in fact actually once ascribed to Giotto.6

 

     The Master of St. George is known to have painted his Codex

no later than 1313, though it has been suggested that he was

active as early as 1290.7 The actual form and motion of the

figures are quite naturalistic. One of the most interesting

figures is that found on page 90 of Painting and Illumination in

Early Renaissance Florence, showing Cardinal Stefaneschi writing

at his desk. The desk, given an architectural form, is displayed

in a remarkably well-executed three-quarters perspective, whilst

the Cardinal himself is sitting upright before his writing board,

concentrating intently as he pauses in working on manuscript that

he is writing while rubbing out a mistake with the speculum in

his left. His ink pot is at his side, and built into the back of

his desk are shelves displaying his own impressive collection of

books. We get the impression of the Cardinal as a real person,

someone we might know, engaged in an everyday task, rather than

as an obscure authority figure raising one hand in benediction

while staring off into space.

 

     A diptych attributed to the Master of St. George displays a

similar concern for activity. The left panel, displaying a Virgin

and child, has Mary looking frankly out at the viewer. Her throne

is placed in a sort of architectural perspective that reflects

the influence of Giotto.8 On the right, Mary and Magdalene gaze

up at the crucified Christ with expressions of intense worry and

concern on their faces. Below, a small figure (the representation

of one of the donors) seems about to touch the blood dripping

from Christ's wounds. Christ himself lolls on the cross, not

wide-eyed as in earlier works, prefiguring his Resurrection, but

quite evidently having died, showing his mortal nature. There is

a truly active quality and psychological interaction between the

figures, prefigured by the earlier works, but also perhaps

bridging the gap to later works.

 

     These details would argue, it seems, for a transmission of

new ideas flowing from illuminators to painters (though such an

idea is appealing), or at the least that the illuminators were up

to date with their contemporaries, rather than the laggards who

practiced an outdated "medieval" art. Interestingly enough, the

Church and the monastic life themselves-- the contemplative

life-- might have fostered notions of the usefulness of the

active life. The greater freedom that might have been allowed

manuscript illuminators, or else the patronage of the wealthy,

might have given them leave to experiment. Another factor might

have been the relative portability of an illuminated manuscript

as opposed to a fresco or panel painting, which might have more

likely been encountered only after a long journey or pilgrimage

in an age when travel was uncertain at best. This matter

certainly bears greater investigation, but is out of the scope of

this paper.

               IV: Techniques of Fresco Painting

 

     A fresco is, simply, a work done in plaster upon a wall.

Because of this, a fresco can by its very nature be made a work

intended for public consumption, as is shown by the famous

examples at San Francesco in Assisi and the allegorical images of

Good and Bad Government in the Palazzo Publico in Siena. It is

also ideally suited for expounding ideas for private meditation,

as its position on the wall draws the eye to itself and almost

commands the viewer's attention. Walls done in fresco give a very

ornate, layered feel to a room.

 

     To begin with, the fresco painter might or might not create

preparatory drawings for the approval of the patron.9 In later

works, of the fifteenth century and beyond, the use of a guide

drawing or cartoon seems to have been standard practice, but

improvisation could also lend fresco painting a spontaneous,

dynamic quality. According to Cennini, "this is the most

agreeable and impressive kind of work."10 The fresco might easily

be seen give a more organic, less calculated, artistic

impression.

 

     An excellent example of this is Fra Angelico's Annunciation,

commissioned by Cosimo de'Medici and done in a monk's cell in the

monastery of San Marco. The fresco catches the eye, despite its

simple, unostentatious composition, with its elegant simplicity

and colors reflecting the stark lines of the monk's cell itself.

The architectural elements are light and airy, and the figures of

Gabriel and Mary have an ethereal quality to them. Gabriel's

wings are a sunburst of color that bespeak sanctified glory, as

if he were made to soar amongst the heavenly counterparts to the

triple arches that frame and unify the two main figures.

 

     To create a fresco, first a scaffolding was erected, and

upon the rough plaster or arricio wall, the painter would then

divide up the work of the fresco and draw a preliminary

underpainting in weak earth tones. This division was necessary,

for in an era with expensive artificial lighting, an artisan

could only work for so many hours a day. Speed was essential, for

the nature of a fresco is that it has to be done in fresh

plaster. Thus, the frescos were planned with each day's work in

mind so that there would not be a jarring transition at the

boundaries between the sections painted on different days, though

often the light failed and we can clearly see where one day's

work ended and another began.

 

     The next stage was to draw in the figures and draperies with

charcoal and then a reddish paint called sinopia, derived from

earth tones. The sinopia was covered over by plaster, the

intonaco, which was smoothed out and upon which the actual

painting would be done. It was also at this phase that the artist

or patron could make a final change in the composition of the

fresco.

 

     Each section painted was called a giornata. The artist

worked from the top of the fresco down so as to avoid dripping

paint on unfinished sections. Because of this, and also the fact

that it is easier to lower a scaffolding then to move it

diagonally, the work was often done in horizontal strips. This

was a detriment in later years when painters strove for a

complete integrity of painting. This was resolved by the planning

of frescos using the cartoon and spolvero technique.

 

 

                        V: Conclusions

 

     Hopefully, this has proven an informative and interesting

dissertation on the methods used by artists in the early

Quintociento. By analysis of primary sources and an examination

of some representative works, we have seen how the world the

artist lived in and the media used in expression could have

influenced their work. The artistic aspects of the Italian

Renaissance did not come out of a vacuum, and several avenues of

influence-- the interplay of painting and manuscript

illumination, the urban world of the painter, and the possibility

of the monastery influencing the outside world-- have been raised

in the course of the discussion. Naturally, in the short length

allowed here, only so much can be expounded upon, and these

questions certainly merit further study.    


 

                         Bibliography

 

Primary Sources:

 

     Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting (Della Pittura, trans.

John Spencer). Yale University Press: New Haven. 1966.

 

     Cennini, Cennino D'Andrea. The Craftsman's Handbook ((Il

Libro dell'Arte, trans. Daniel V. Thompson). Yale University

Press: New York. 1933.

 

Tertiary Sources:

 

     Alexander, Jonathan J.G. Medieval Illuminators and their

Methods of Work. Yale    University Press: New Haven. 1992.

    

     Hart, Frederick. Italian Renaissance Art. Prentice Hall,

Inc: New York. 1987

 

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