Word: frescoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...18th centuries delineated his ideas, often in considerable detail, and submitted them to a patron for approval. The dash and daring all too often vanished when he transferred his design to an immense ceiling or wall. One reason: the sketch was the work of the artist, while the fresco was sometimes completed with the aid of assistants...
...artist turned out his work at maximum speed; in his day, he was known as Luca fa presto, or Fast Worker Luca. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini's Fall of Phaëthon is built of thin, semitransparent layers of oil paint and has a lightness that the finished fresco undoubtedly lacked (the sketch has outlived the fresco, which was destroyed in World...
Hidden Sketches. Detaching a fresco from its wall is a process that has only been perfected in the past decade. In essence, it requires that a piece of canvas be glued temporarily to the face of the fresco. Then the canvas and the attached mural surface are gently peeled off together. The back of the fresco is then remounted on a panel, and the canvas protecting its front is removed. It is a delicate operation, and until Masonite and Fiberglas came along, no backing could be found that did not sag, warp, wrinkle or crack...
Leonine Shepherd. "These drawings are often surprisingly modern," observes Claus Virch, the Met's curator of European painting. "There is an expressiveness to them not found in the fresco." In some cases, a comparison of the sinopia with the fresco has revealed surprising differences. The sinopia beneath Andrea del Castagno's muscular St. Jerome [on this page and opposite] is no more like the finished fresco than the youthful Dorian Gray was like his aging portrait. The sinopia shows a handsome young man; the fresco, a gnarled and suffering ascetic. The difference is so striking that Princeton...
While the Met's visiting exhibit does not-and cannot-include any of the near-legendary series of frescoes to which pilgrims trek, vignettes from major masters, together with larger pictures by significant unknowns, have been included. Giotto, Italy's first great fresco painter, is represented by a fragment showing the leonine head of a shepherd, Piero della Francesca by a lone saint. The gentle spirit of Fra Angelico is manifest in a lunette from the Florentine cloister of San Marco. It portrays St. Peter Martyr (a 13th century Dominican monk) putting his finger to his lips...