Giotto’s Technique

The video retraces the techniques used by #Giotto, #Duccio and #Simone_Martini to paint and gild the tables prepared with plaster and glue. During the fourteenth century the colors were tempered in egg red and spread by juxtaposition and fusion, the gilding could instead be performed with the gouache, mission or shell technique. To see the stratigraphy of the painting and the photograph of the whole: To see the entire painting and its cross-section visit: Abstract Thirteenth and fourteenth century paintings show a significant continuity in the techniques and materials used: wood support, gesso and animal glue ground preparation, tempera and gilding can be observed over a long period. The primary source of information about the techniques used during this period is Il Libro dell’Arte by Cennino #Cennini, a painter in the tradition of Giotto. In this text, one can readily see the advances that the thirteenth century made