The making of portrait miniatures using playing cards as a painting support: Porträtminiaturen mit Spielkarten
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Beteilige Person: Leonhard, Karin 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch Paper
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Links:https://techne.hypotheses.org/3648
Abstract:In Tudor England portrait miniatures were frequently painted on playing cards. Precise instruction is provided by Edward Norgate: "Take an ordinary playing card, polish it, and make it so smooth as possibly you can (the white side of it); make it everywhere even and clean from spots, then choose the best abortive parchment, and cutting out a piece equal to your card, with fine and clean starch paste it on the card. Which done, let it dry; then making your grindstone as clean as may be, lay the card on the stone, the parchment side downward, and then polish it on the back side; it will make it much the smoother. You must paste your parchment so that the outside of the skin may be outward, it being the smoothest and best side to work on." But is the playing card only an arbitrary picture support that was selected by painters mainly for its specific material qualities? This article is devoted to the relationship between painters of coats of arms and miniature painters in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, as well as the question whether there is more behind the choice of "ordinary" playing cards than first meets the eye.Making of Portrait Miniatures Using Playing Cards as a Painting Support | Porträtminiaturen mit Spielkarten Abstract: In Tudor England portrait miniatures were frequently painted on playing cards. Precise instruction is provided by Edward Norgate: "Take an ordinary playing card, polish it, and make it so smooth as possibly you can (the white side of it); make it everywhere even and clean from spots, then choose the best abortive parchment, and cutting out a piece equal to your card, with fine and clean starch paste it on the card. Which done, let it dry; then making your grindstone as clean as may be, lay the card on the stone, the parchment si
Umfang:Illustrationen
ISSN:2750-6185