Grimmlore
Minstrel
Hey guys i'm trying to research the materials and techniques used for painting in the 1400's. Today we paint on a canvas but how did they do it back then? has anyone stumbled across research for this before?
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Weaver
Sage
How did who do it back then? What country/culture are you asking about?
Yes, canvas was used. Oil paints were used -- acrylics, obviously, had not been invented. Sometimes egg tempera paints were used. Paintings were also sometimes done on smoothed wooden boards, and then there's illuminations done on parchment or whatever.
(*has a degree in art*)
Yes, canvas was used. Oil paints were used -- acrylics, obviously, had not been invented. Sometimes egg tempera paints were used. Paintings were also sometimes done on smoothed wooden boards, and then there's illuminations done on parchment or whatever.
(*has a degree in art*)
Look for these terms
early Renaissance
quattrocento (Italian for 1400s)
tempera
fresco
oil painting in 1400s
sfumato
chiarascuro
There's more, but that will get you a good way down the road.
early Renaissance
quattrocento (Italian for 1400s)
tempera
fresco
oil painting in 1400s
sfumato
chiarascuro
There's more, but that will get you a good way down the road.
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Grimmlore
Minstrel
sorry weaver. It would be for A Frenchman painting in Romania.
Weaver is going to ask this anyway, so I'll ask it: painting *what*?
Painting altar pieces? Church walls? Portraiture was rare, and probably unknown in Rumania.
Most of the region was in the process of falling under Turkish rule during that century, so the source of patronage would have been changing anyway.
Painting altar pieces? Church walls? Portraiture was rare, and probably unknown in Rumania.
Most of the region was in the process of falling under Turkish rule during that century, so the source of patronage would have been changing anyway.
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Grimmlore
Minstrel
Actually yeah its a portrait but of a very influential figure.
