No Cure For The Medieval Mind

  2428. Make two sticks of strong wood, neither too thick nor too thin, about a foot long; let them be well rounded at the top and botto...

  2424. From Cennini’s Artists Handbook: How to prepare Ultramarine Blue pigment: First take some lapis lazuli; and if you would know ...

  2420. It is necessary to say something about this business of, “Grinding up.” It is an idea that is almost impossible for a modern art...

  2416. First sections of the drawings where placed upon the wall and while they were held in place someone would press through the pape...

  2412. Looking over his work he smiled to himself to think what a pitiful job he had done on the first wall, the plastering of which no...

  2408. Soon the base coat of the plaster was finished throughout all of the walls of the church and it was time for the masons to begin...

  2404. But even the plastering Faldoni was not allowed to do at first because the plaster is the ground of the fresco painting, and its...