Painting

The full text of the English translation, featuring recipes for artists' supplies, and instructions for techniques.

Subjects covered in this issue: men's clothing of the 1450's-1470's; and illustrations of woodworking tools, glass vessels, bags, and painters' tools.

In order to create a ceremonial atmosphere at baronial and kingdom court events, we have fashioned personal standards.

Medieval murals in Danish churches.

See how a 15th century Italian altarpiece was made. This interactive website discusses the making of an altarpiece by the Florentine artist Rosello di Jacopo Franchi.

The trades of medieval painters, illustrators, sculptors, and makers of stained glass.

The murals presented here were made between the 12th and the 15th centuries.

A series of engravings that bring to us the very clear representation of the crafts and technology of his time, and the relative importance which these discoveries and inventions had in the mind of a well-informed layman of the 16th century.

New Discoveries includes illustrations of: The Lodestone, The Magnet; The Astrolabe; America; Gunpowder; Printing Books; Iron Clocks; Guaiacum (a New World remedy for syphilis); Distillation; Silk, or the Silkworm; Stirrups, or Foot Rests; the Watermill; the Winged Mill (windmills); Olive Oil; Sugar; Oil Colors (oil-painting); Spectacles (eyeglasses); Longitudes of the Earth Found from the Deviation of the Magnet from the Pole; Polishing Armor; Engraving on Copper; and the travels & discoveries of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Ferdinand Magellan.

Class notes for decorating dishes and glassware using a modern style of paint.

Illustrations of painters, limners, and illuminators at work, from the 14th-16th centuries. Demonstrates the development and stylistic variations in easels, palettes, paintbrushes, and other tools used in these professions.

One of the characteri stic and beautiful things about Medieval clothing is the ornate patterns and ornaments. Often, those patterns are woven into the fabric or are embroidere d. But there is some evidence of patterns painted onto fabric, specifical ly for banners and theatrical /ceremonia l costumes and backdrops and as the patterns for embroidery . However painted fabrics were used in the Medieval and Renaissanc e, re-enactor s can use paint to recreate the look of heavily patterned fabrics in place of expensive fabrics or time-consu ming decorative techniques .

Exploring the art of painting on canvas, specifically tent canvas. Many people like to paint their tents, because it's often the easiest way to put their device (or some other elaborate graphic) on their tents. Others want to recreate the type of "architectural" painting one sees on depictions of period tents.

Pigments are the basis of all paints, and have been used for millennia. They are ground colored material. Early pigments were simply as ground earth or clay, and were made into paint with spit or fat. Modern pigments are often sophisticated masterpieces of chemical engineering. This exhibit includes most important pigments used through the early 20th century.

Period and SCA painting. terms used. Paint bases and types.

Assembling wood panels for use as a painting medium.

A few examples of painted tents, to help you get a feel for what designs would look appropriate to your tent.

A searchable collection of thousands of paintings and other artworks, useful for documentation.

WebMuseum, Paris.