Is Tracing Cheating? (Spoiler: No)
Channel: Spines And Splines
Date: 2021-06-24

Tracing. Is it the worst thing in the world? No, it’s not.

This video goes into the history of tracing and how it can be useful to your art practice. 

Timecodes:
0:00 Myths about tracing
2:02 Why do people trace?
2:31 Tracing as a tool
2:47 A history of tracing
3:32 Hey yeah Patreon
4:14 Cartoons and their use in tracing art
5:40 A history of tracing and animation
6:22 Printmaking and tracing
7:38 "But stealers who steal are naughty! What about them!?"
8:05 The motivations of people who steal art 
8:18 The end!

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Writing, production editing and sound by Leonie Connellan


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SOURCES:
https://www.vox.com/2015/6/15/8774475/renaissance-art-tracing-cartoons

Getty Museum video on tracing and cartoons: https://youtu.be/46_wiOboDk4

PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES USED:
The Met, New York
http://metmuseum.org

Jupiter and Juno: Study for the 'Furti di Giove' Tapestries
ca. 1532–35
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian

Saint John the Evangelist (recto; Cartoon for a Fresco); Saint Mark (verso; Cartoon for a Fresco)
1548–49
Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi) Italian

The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia (Cartoon for a Fresco)
1612–14
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) Italian

Cartoon for the embroidery of an orphrey bearing Medici arms combined with Arms of the House of Austria
ca. 1608
Anonymous, Italian, 17th century Italian

Judith Holding up the Head of Holofernes
1625–1713
Carlo Maratti Italian

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Staedel Museum, Frankfurt
https://www.staedelmuseum.de

Friedrich Overbeck
Karton zu einem Teil des Freskos "Peter von Amiens beruft Gottfried von Bouillon zum Führer des Christenheeres", 1825

Carl Heinrich Hermann after Peter Von Cornelius
Der Sieg König Ludwigs des Bayern bei Mühldorf am 28. September 1322, before 1829

Julius Schnorr Von Carolsfeld
Kniender Armbrustschütze aus dem Rasenden Roland des Ariost, 1825

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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 
https://www.boijmans.nl/

Studies for an outstretched right forearm for the fresco ‘The Drunkeness of Noah’, Michelangelo Buonarroti, circa 1508


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