2452. After this he would cut up the big drawing into
sections, planning each piece of the work according to how much wall he
wanted to plaster and paint in any one given session of work. Then he
would be ready to start.
2453. The above is how fresco painting is done. It is not
the method for oil painting, and it is of no use for watercolor, it as
not to be considered when doing a work in egg tempera either. Only the
art of fresco painting has these elaborate steps, and this is the reason hardly anyone has done it for hundreds of years.
2454. All of these preparatory steps could not be
attempted by Faldoni for the simple reason that he had no paper, and no
way to procure any. Back then in 1290, you could not go to the store and
buy a pad of a hundred sheets of pure rag paper for a few ducats. And
besides, even if you could Faldoni did not have any ducats.
2455. There was no such thing as leftover paper, because paper was too valuable to waste. The cut off sections of the big drawings used for the mural decorations were dried out, flattened and stored, and then cut up to be used by the apprentices for preliminary drawings.
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