Episode 8 - Egg and Bright Earth
Bernardo Daddi, panels from the Santa Reparata Polyptych, c. 1338-40
Tempera and gold on panel
Uffizi Galleries, Florence
Taddeo Gaddi, Saint Julian, 1340s
Tempera on wood, gold ground, 21 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (54 x 36.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Simone Martini, Saint Ansanus, ca. 1326
Tempera on wood, gold ground, 22 5/8 x 15 in. (57.5 x 38.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Master of the Straus Madonna, Coronation of the Virgin, c 1405
Tempera on panel
Museo degli Innocenti, Florence
Bernardo Daddi, Santa Reparata Before the Emperor Decius, c. 1338-40
Tempera and gold on panel, 12 ¾ x 16 in (32.4 x 40.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Master of the Sienese Straus Madonna, Virgin and Child, c 1340-50
Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 32 1/8 × 17 3/4 in. (81.6 × 45.1 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Niccolò di Segna, Saint Lucy, ca. 1340
Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 27 3/4 x 17 3/16 in. (70.5 x 43.7 cm)
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Ugolino di Nerio or Workshop of Duccio di Buoninsegna, Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Saints, ca. 1305–10
Tempera on panel, 46 11/16 × 29 13/16 × 1 5/16 in (118.6 × 75.7 × 3.3 cm)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Recommended Reading
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Rutherford Gettens and George Stout, Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopedia, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1966
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Robert Feller ed., Artists' Pigments, a handbook of their history and characteristics, Vol. 1, The National Gallery of Art, 1986
https://www.nga.gov/research/publications/pdf-library/artists-pigments-vol-1.html
Ashok Roy ed., Artists' Pigments, a handbook of their history and characteristics, Vol. 2, The National Gallery of Art, 1994
https://www.nga.gov/research/publications/pdf-library/artists-pigments-vol2.html
Elisabeth West FitzHugh ed., Artists' Pigments, a handbook of their history and characteristics, Vol. 3, The National Gallery of Art, 1997
https://www.nga.gov/research/publications/pdf-library/artists-pigments-vol-3.html
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