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XVII
[Conservation examination by the scientific and technical staff of the Vatican Museums
has discovered a few important details of the technique adopted by Pinturicchio and his
collaborators in view of accelerating the execution of the work. The artist appears to
have given up fresco in favor of a technique similar to easel painting, that is pigments
ground in egg, oil and glue applied over a ground of gesso, glue and lead white, which
has been spread over a preexisting wall preparation. This process of using various
binders allows the use of more pigments than traditional fresco. The parts in relief are
wax and stucco covered with gold and a series of multiple materials used with the intent
of suggesting three dimensionality.]
The Arts of
the
Quadrivium:
Arithmetic
The Arts of
the
Quadrivium:
Music
Andrea Mantegna
Mantegna’s destroyed frescoes -
Cappella Ovetari,
Chiesa degli Eremitani,
Padova
Reconstruction
by Parco
Scientifico e
Tecnologico
Galileo, Padova
Reconstruction by
Parco Scientifico e
Tecnologico Galileo,
Padova
La Camera degli Sposi (Camera Picta), Mantova
Studiolo di Isabella d'Este, Mantova
[reconstruction by Judith Henning
and Tanja Doering]
Paintings originally located
in the Studiolo di Isabella d'Este
Pietro Perugino
Lorenzo Costa
Andrea Mantegna and Lorenzo Costa (painting originally located
in the Studiolo di Isabella d'Este)
Paintings originally located
in the Studiolo di Isabella d'Este
Correggio Correggio
(Antonio Allegri) (Antonio Allegri)
Giovanni Bellini
Andrea Mantegna (painting originally located in the Studiolo di Isabella d'Este)
Mantegna’s use of the double
diatessaron musical ratio
[diagrams by Charles Bouleau]
Andrea Mantegna (painting originally located in the Studiolo di
Isabella d'Este)
Edgar Degas, copy after Mantegna
Edgar Degas, copy after Mantegna