Renaissance
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Read more: I, in fact, do not yearn for the minesLooking out the window as we approached the vast mountains towering over us, the quarries looked like small patches of snow. As we traveled up…
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Read more: A Humbling Experience
The egg tempera painting gave us a look into just how much work goes into the thousands of paintings all across the city. It really…
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Read more: The Art in Engineering
Learning about the many famous renaissance figures who were both creative artists and engineers showed the possible balance between the two seemingly different careers. Integrating…
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Read more: Great start, much learning
Today we were introduced to a new art style that was pertinent to the Renaissance which was panel painting. At first, we started off with…
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Read more: Egg Tempera PaintingIt is really eye opening how much work went into making a painting during the start of the renaissance. Even before the painting process starts,…
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Read more: Oil Painting
Kyle Giacobello After hearing that our Fresco class got cancelled, I was instantly bummed out. At the time, oil painting had no meaning to me…
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Read more: Learning Tempra!Today, we learned how to paint using Tempra on a wood panel. Renaissance artists would paint using Tempra, an egg yolk-based paint, before oil paints…
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Read more: Painting with eggs?As of today, I can officially say that I have made art with eggs! Tempura is a painting medium that uses powdered pigments and liquid…
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Read more: Eggs, Wood, and Foil, Oh My!After workshopping how to use wood, egg tempera, and foil to create a masterpiece, there were many takeaways from this experience. To start off, it…
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Read more: Oils & FoilsWritten by Joey George The city streets are quiet early on a mid-May morning. Beams of sunlight saturate the Tuscany hues. The walk to Via…
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