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    Cennino d'Andrea Cennini (c. 1360 – before 1427) was an Italian painter influenced by Giotto. He was a student of Agnolo Gaddi in Florence. Gaddi trained...
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  • 15th-century Italian painter and writer Cennino Cennini in his handbook on painting, Il libro dell'arte. Cennini recommended mixing Venetian red with lime...
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    ultramarine from lapis lazuli was introduced and later described by Cennino Cennini in the 15th century. This process consisted of grinding the lapis lazuli...
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    is ground, the finer the color becomes. Italian Renaissance artist Cennino Cennini wrote: "If you were to grind it every day, even for 20 years, it would...
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    portrayed wearing violet robes. The 15th-century Florentine painter Cennino Cennini advised artists: "If you want to make a lovely violet colour, take...
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    with a bluish tinge the color of indigo. The 15th-century painter Cennino Cennini described how this pigment was made during the Renaissance in his famous...
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    Publications, New York, p. 98 Cennino Cennini,The Craftsman's Handbook, note by translator, p xiv. Lara Broecke, Cennino Cennini, Il libro dell'arte, Archetype...
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    brown called terra di siena, or sienna earth. The 15th-century painter Cennino Cennini described the uses of ochre pigments in his famous treatise on painting...
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    yellow. Painters in the Renaissance mixed red and blue to make violet: Cennino Cennini, in his 15th-century manual on painting, wrote, "If you want to make...
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  • artists such as Giotto (whose technique is described in detail by Cennino Cennini), as well as by Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden (whose technique...
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    paintings at Pompeii and Dura-Europos. The Renaissance painter and writer Cennino Cennini claimed that “the ancients never gilded except with this green” being...
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    In his famous 15th century manual on painting, Il Libro Dell'Arte, Cennino Cennini described it this way: "This pigment is made from the loveliest and...
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    time, in this surpassing medieval works such as The book of Art by Cennino Cennini (1390). De pictura also includes the first description of linear geometric...
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  • personal style; this was alluded to by the artists of that era like Cennino Cennini, Petrarch and Pier Paolo Vergerio. In the 18th century, Romanticism...
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    to reliquaries and portable altars. The method used is described by Cennino Cennini. Other practitioners include Jonas Zeuner and Hans Jakob Sprungli (1559–1637)...
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    a method that had been described previously by Cennino Cennini in the 14th century. However, Cennini described the technique as being more risky than...
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    In Francesco's extensive familia, or ducal household, the painter Cennino Cennini imbibed the humanist culture expressed in his celebrated Libro dell'arte...
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    Cennini, Cennino (1821). Giuseppe Tambroni (ed.). Trattato della Pittura (15th-century original). Rome: Torchi di Paolo Salviucci. pp. iv. Cennini, Cennino...
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    Castle, Delaware Herringham, C.J. (transl. 1899) The Book of the Art of Cennino Cennini, an English translation from the Italian Hewitt, G. (1930) Lettering:...
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    Collections. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 29. "The book of the art of Cennino Cennini — the Warburg Institute" (PDF). Alexander E. Youman, A Dictionary of...
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    amphibians and reptiles, according to a technique already described by Cennino Cennini but known only from this work. Also in the jambs and architrave, hastily...
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  • 1444) 1370: Lorenzo Monaco – Florentine painter (died 1425) 1370: Cennino Cennini – Italian painter influenced by Giotto (died 1440) 1370: Gentile da...
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    (0-295-98190-3) Softcover, University of Washington Press Lara Broecke,'Cennino Cennini's Il Libro dell'Arte: a New English Translation and Commentary with...
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    century, oil was used to detail tempera paintings. In the 14th century, Cennino Cennini described a painting technique utilizing tempera painting covered by...
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    century, oil was used to detail tempera paintings. In the 14th century, Cennino Cennini described a painting technique utilizing tempera painting covered by...
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    Giovanni della Robbia, frescoes by Bartolo di Fredi, Taddeo Gaddi, Cennino Cennini and Arturo Agliardi. The remains of San Lucchese, patron saint of Poggibonsi...
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    (Giottino) Giovanni da Ponte[disambiguation needed] Agnolo Gaddi with Cennino Cennini Berna Sanese (Barna da Siena) Duccio Antonio Viniziano (Antonio Veneziano)...
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    frequently been emphasised, for instance artists such as Paul Cézanne and Cennino Cennini. Ingres and Delacroix highly emphasised the value of learning from...
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    in this collection drew from writing of Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini. Upon Leonardo's death, he left his notebooks to his pupil and heir...
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    of sculptor and architect Arnolfo di Cambio. The Giottesque painter Cennino Cennini and the poet Isabella Cervoni were also born here. The village is entered...
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