Studying Painting with Ancient Techniques in Florence is an important experience as the town was the cradle of art in the Middle Ages and Renaissance and the great masters such as Giotto, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci worked here to create their masterpieces.
Egg tempera is one of the oldest painting techniques and the most widely used until after 1500, when it was replaced by oil paints. Often, where tempera was used, so was gold leaf, particularly in iconographic paintings. These are the ancient techniques introduced in our course, which students can use to reproduce paintings by the great masters or to make modern and original works.
Courses can be started every week and classes are held in the afternoon. The Intensive course is held Monday to Friday from 3pm to 7pm, while the schedule for the Basic and Semi-intensive courses varies for every student and will be communicated on the week before the starting of the course.
This course is available in three types:
-Basic (6 hours per week)
-Semi-intensive (10 hours per week)
-Intensive (20 hours per week)
What is egg tempera? Egg tempera is a very stable type of paint composed of pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder (normally a sticky substance like egg yolks). This type of paint dries very quickly and lasts over time. There are art works painted in egg tempera that date back more than 2000 years ago. The egg tempera was the most used pictorial method until after 1500, when it was replaced by oil colors.
What is gold leaf? Gold leaf is a thin sheet of hammered gold used for gilding, a decoration technique traditionally used on statues, paintings, frames, jewels and architectural elements.
PROGRAM
- Demonstration of the preparation of tempera colors
- Transfer of the design on panel or canvas with the spolvero technique
