Word: constantinus
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Fogg workshop are two painted panels which reproduce the mosaic portrait of the emperor Constantinus Monomachos. These are the first two experiments. In the first the actual pattern of the cubes was transferred from a full six photographic print to a prepared panel of gesso. The form of each cube was then laboriously incised into the gesso and painted in tempera. The second experiment was made directly on a photostat. The form of each cube in this case was raised with gesso, somewhat in the manner of the raised letters in a medieval manuscript, and them painted with glue tempera...
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