The Renaissance workshop
By: edited by David Saunders, Marika Spring, and Andrew Meek
Contributors: British Museum
Publisher: Archetype Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781904982937
Subjects: Renaissance Art; Congresses; Artists' materials; Art; Technique; Artists' studios; Conservation and restoration; Werkstatt; Werkstattfertigung; Kunstproduktion
Description: "The papers in this volume illustrate the way in which various types of technical evidence, derived from scientific examination and analysis, can contribute to the understanding of Renaissance workshop practices and the inter-relationships between different artists and artisans. These studies provide a vivid insight not only into the organization of craft and artistic endeavour in studios and workshops, but also into the everyday lives and concerns of those who ran and worked within them, showing that a great number of the challenges facing these artists and craftsmen are still relevant today. Originality and individuality were balanced against a sense and knowledge of what would sell, and the temptation to replicate the popular competed with the desire to innovate. Artists sought to make the best use of scarce, expensive materials and perhaps balanced the lower costs of those sourced or produced locally against the merits (in the guise of quality and exoticism) of more expensive imports."--Back cover.
Notes: Papers and posters originally presented during a conference held at the British Museum, London, May 10-11, 2012; organized jointly by the British Museum and the National Gallery as part of the networking activities of the CHARISMA project.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Papers. Painting and illumination in early Renaissance Florence: the techniques of Lorenzo Monaco and his workshop / Paola Ricciardi, Michelle Facini, John K. Delaney; title: Workshop practice in Slovenian wall paintings from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Anabelle Križnar; title: Replication and variation: Roccatagliata and the female nude / Shelley Sturman; title: Technical characteristics of bronze statuettes from the workshops of Antonio and Giovanni Francesco Susini / Dylan Smith; title: Benedetto da Maiano, Giuliano and Antonio de Sangallo, and Baccio da Montelupo: workshop-specific construction techniques of Florentine Renaissance crucifixes / Peter Stiberc; title: Altarpieces in Portugal: joinery techniques within the context of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European workshop practice / Filipa Raposo Cordeiro; title: Early Renaissance altarpieces in Transylvania: materials and technological characteristics / Cristina Serendan ... [et al.]; title: The altarpiece of Saint Dominic of Silos by Bartolomé Bermejo: an example of painting practices during the early Spanish Renaissance / Dolores Gayo, Maite Jover, Laura Alba; title: Smoke and mirrors: the enhancement and simulation of gemstones in Renaissance Europe / Joanna Whalley; title: The San Giovanni altar from the Baptistery of Florence: the goldsmith's workshop through the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Pamela Bonanni ... [et al.]; title: Christ carrying the Cross: a surviving sarga by Luis de Morales: technical examination and workshop practices / Rafael Romero Asenjo, Adelina Illán Gutiérrez; title: The Botteghe degli Artisti: artistic enterprise at the della Rovere and Medici courts in the late sixteenth century / Erma Hermens; title: Some ornament prints and their link with craftsmanship / Antony Griffiths; title: Moveable anatomies and print shop practice in sixteenth-century Strasbourg / Theresa Smith; title: Visual evidence for the use of carta lucida in the Italian Renaissance workshop / Maria Clelia Galassi; title: Evidence for workshop practices at the Tudor mint in the Tower of London / Justine Bayley, Harriet White; title: Sixteenth-century life-casting techniques: experimental reconstructions based on a preserved manuscript / Tonny Beentjes and Pamela H. Smith; title: Bernard Palissy: scientist and potter of the Renaissance in France / Anne Bouquillon ... [et al.]; title: Shorter contributions and posters. Stylus drawing in the Renaissance workshop: investigating leadpoint and blind stylus in a Leonardo drawing / Jenny Bescoby, Judith Rayner, Joanna Russell; title: Technical analysis of a Renaissance limestone altarpiece / Ana Bidarra ... [et al.]; title: Analyses of Renaissance Venetian enamelled glasses from the Musée du Louvre / Isabelle Biron ... [et al.]; title: Conservation and preliminary study of the alabaster sculptures in the mausoleum of Jean V de Hénnin-Liétard at Boussu, Belgium / Judy De Roy; title: Neri di Bicci and the diffusion of cartoons between fifteenth-century Florentine workshops / Jennifer Diorio; title: Research on metallic material in liturgical textiles of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: studies of production technology / Livio Ferrazza, David Juanes, M. Gertrudis Jaén; title: Striptease and dressing-up in Titian's workshop: a technical comparison of the Young Girls in the Galleria Palatina, the Hermitage, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum / Helen Glanville, Patrizia Riitano, Claudio Seccaroni; title: A treasured Renaissance manuscript, Les vies des femmes célèbres: laboratory investigations of the miniaturist Jean Pichore's practices and techniques / Hélène Guicharnaud, Alain Duval; title: Grisaille technique and materials in European Renaissance painted enamel objects: Limoges white, binding media, chiaroscuro, and the interrelationship between crafts / Núria López-Ribalta; title: Reassertation of a Renaissance jewel: the investigation and interpretation of two enamelled panels from the Wallace Collection / Andrew Meek, Jamie Hood, Jeremy Warren; title: Describing the elusive: a project for new perspectives on the practices and the resources of illuminators in the north of Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century / Sylvie Neven; title: Distinctive materials in a late sixteenth-century portrait / Libby Sheldon, Gabriella Macaro; title: Fra Bartolommeo and frescoes on tiles in fifteenth- to sixteenth-century Florence / Deodato Tapete, Cristina Giannini, Fabio Fratini; title: Sixteenth-century Netherlandish workshop practices: technical investigation of the Copenhagen version of Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple / Hannah Tempest, Anne Haack Christensen.