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Item Number: 123146
Title: The Luminous Trace: Drawing and Writing in Metalpoint
Author: Burns, Thea
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781904982838
Description: London: Archetype, 2013. 25cm., hardcover, 272pp., 83 color illus. Contents: Introduction: the challenge of drawing in metalpoint ; The metalpoint drawing: material and technique ; Recent historiographical studies ; The challenge ; ; Ancient drawing and writing materials ; Metalpoint drawing in classical antiquity? ; The physical evidence for line drawing in classical antiquity ; Modern interpretations of the ancient evidence ; The writing tablet: materials, formats and functions ; Ancient styli: physical evidence ; ; Drawing and writing in metalpoint in the Middle Ages ; Drawing - painting - writing ; Iconography of Christianity triumphant ; Artefactual evidence for marking with metal styli on tablets ; Textual evidence for marking with metalpoint ; Underdrawing, rulings, and other markings in leadpoint, graphite and hardpoint (blind stylus) ; Rulings ; Marginal drawings and compilation notes ; Underdrawings ; Marking and supporting materials used in pattern books ; The evidence of artists' technical manuals and recipe books ; ; The metalpoint in Trecento and early Quattrocento Italy ; The liminal space of Trecento art ; Metalpoint drawing in the Italian Trecento ; Presentation drawings ; Copy/contract drawing ; Drawings of contested function ; Preparatory studies ; Drawings made directly on the primary support ; Written evidence for metalpoint drawing: Cennino Cennini's Il Libro dell'arte ; Cennini's comments on drawing ; Drawing practice in early Quattrocento Italy ; ; The meaning of the appearance of Quattrocento metalpoint drawings ; Historiographical positions ; Art historiographical positions ; Visual evidence of the classical past ; Drawing in Quattrocento Florence ; The artist's evolving status, the revival of antiquity and the shifting status of drawings ; Indirect physical evidence for reconstructing the activity of drawing in antiquity ; Leonardo da Vinci and metalpoint ; Metalpoint in Cinquecento Italy ; Metalpoints for drawing and writing: late medieval and early modern northern Europe ; Introduction: context ; The production of drawings ; Independent drawings? ; Model books on tablets, mainly metalpoint ; Sixteenth-century metalpoint sketchbook drawings ; Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century metalpoint drawings for painted portraits ; More sixteenth-century metalpoint drawings ; Rembrandt and metalpoint ; Eighteenth-century metalpoint drawings ; Writing tablets: fifteenth-eighteenth century ; ; Modern metalpoint ; The attraction of line ; Later nineteenth-century metalpoint drawing in England ; Later nineteenth- and twentieth-century metalpoint drawing in America ; Twentieth-century European metalpoint drawings ; 'Patent improved memorandum' and other metallic books ; The renaissance of metalpoint in contemporary America ; ; Appendix 1 -Joseph Meder, Das Buchlein vom Silbersteft, Vienna, 1909 translated by Susan Thorne ; Appendix 2 - Bibliographical review of recent literature on analysis and conservation of metalpoint drawings ; Colour of metalpoint lines as an identifier ; Faded metalpoint lines ; Investigation of grounds ; Investigation of metalpoint lines ; The presence of mercury and other metal inclusions in metalpoint lines ; Preservation and conservation.
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