The Renaissance Workshop

Through detailed studies, the papers reveal the organisation of studios, material choices, and the balance between innovation and market demands. They also trace the movement of ideas and techniques across regions and generations, showing how artists navigated practical, economic, and creative challenges. Together, these insights offer a vivid picture of the interconnected world of Renaissance craft and artistic production.

The papers in this volume illustrate the way in which various types of technical evidence, derived from scientific examination and analysis, can contribute to the understanding of Renaissance workshop practices and the inter-relationships between different artists and artisans. These studies provide a vivid insight not only into the organization of craft and artistic endeavour in studios and workshops, but also into the everyday lives and concerns of those who ran and worked within them, showing that a great number of the challenges facing these artists and craftsmen are still relevant today. Originality and individuality were balanced against a sense and knowledge of what would sell, and the temptation to replicate the popular competed with the desire to innovate. Artists sought to make the best use of scarce, expensive materials and perhaps balanced the lower costs of those sourced or produced locally against the merits (in the guise of quality and exoticism) of more expensive imports. While the business of the studio is a common theme, another is intercommunication and the spread of ideas – between individuals, among studios and across national boundaries. The examination of materials and techniques has enabled some of these connections to be made, providing an insight into the transfer of concepts and practices as regional and traditional styles were influenced through contacts between cultures and generations.

Foreword

Painting and illumination in early Renaissance Florence: the techniques of Lorenzo Monaco and his workshop

Paola Ricciardi, Michelle Facini and John K. Delaney

Workshop practice in Slovenian wall paintings from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

Anabelle Kriznar

Replication and variation: Roccatagliata and the female nude

Shelley Sturman

Technical characteristics of bronze statuettes from the workshops of Antonio and Giovanni Francesco Susini

Dylan Smith

The workshop practice and the construction techniques of Florentine Renaissance crucifixes

Peter Stiberc

Altarpieces in Portugal: joinery techniques within the context of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European workshop practice

Filipa Raposo Cordeiro

Early Renaissance altarpieces in Transylvania: materials and technological characteristics

Cristina Serendan, David Hradil, Janka Hradilova and Joseph Cannataci

The altarpiece of Saint Dominic of Silos by Bartolome Bermejo: an example of painting practices during the early Spanish Renaissance

Dolores Gayo, Maite Jover and Laura Alba

Smoke and mirrors: the enhancement and simulation of gemstones in Renaissance Europe

Joanna Whalley

The San Giovanni altar from the Baptistery of Florence: the goldsmith's workshop through the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

Pamela Bonanni, Andrea Cagnini, Natalia Cavalca, Monica Galeotti, PierAndrea Mando, Alessandro Migliori, Simone Porcinai and Marco VeritA

Christ carrying the Cross: a surviving sarga by Luis de Morales: technical examination and workshop practices

Rafael Romero and Adelina Illan

The Botteghe degli Artisti: artistic enterprise at the della Rovere and Medici courts in the late sixteenth century

Erma Hermens

Some ornament prints and their link with craftsmanship

Antony Griffiths

Moveable anatomies and print shop practice in sixteenth-century Strasbourg

Theresa Smith

Visual evidence for the use of carta lucida in the Italian Renaissance workshop

Maria Clelia Galassi

Evidence for workshop practices at the Tudor mint in the Tower of London

Justine Bayley and Harriet White

Sixteenth-century life-casting techniques: experimental reconstructions based on a preserved manuscript

Tonny Beentjes and Pamela H. Smith

Bernard Palissy: scientist and potter of the Renaissance in France

Anne Bouquillon, Francoise Barbe, Patrice Lehuede, Jacques Castaing and Thierry Crepin-Leblond

Shorter contributions and posters

Stylus drawing in the Renaissance workshop: investigating leadpoint and blind stylus in a Leonardo drawing

Jenny Bescoby, Judith Rayner and Joanna Russell

Technical analysis of a Renaissance limestone altarpiece

Ana Bidarra, Pedro Antunes, Teresa Desterro, Joao Coroado and Fernando Rocha

Analyses of Renaissance Venetian enamelled glasses from the Musee du Louvre

Isabelle Biron, Marco VeritA , Francoise Barbe and Rosa Barovier Mentasti

Conservation and preliminary study of the alabaster sculptures in the mausoleum of Jean V de Hennin-Lietard at Boussu, Belgium

Judy De Roy

Nero di Bicci and the diffusion of cartoons between fifteenth-century Florentine workshops

Jennifer Diorio

Research on metallic material in liturgical textiles of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: studies of production technology

Livio Ferrazza, David Juanes and M Gertrudis Jaen

Striptease and dressing-up in Titian's workshop: a technical comparison of the Young Girls in the Galleria Palatina, the Hermitage and the Kunsthistorisches Museum

Helen Glanville, Patrizia Riitano and Claudio Seccaroni

A treasured Renaissance manuscript, Les Vies des femmes celebres: laboratory investigations of the miniaturist Jean Pichore's practices and techniques

Helene Guicharnaud and Alain Duval

Grisaille materials and techniques in European Renaissance painted enamel objects: Limoges white, binding media, chiaroscuro and the interrelationship between crafts

Nuria Lopez-Ribalta

Reassertion of a Renaissance jewel: the investigation and interpretation of two enamelled panels from the Wallace Collection

Andrew Meek, Jamie Hood and Jeremy Warren

Describing the elusive: a project for new perspectives on the practices and the resources of illuminators in the north of Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century

Sylvie Neven

Distinctive materials in a late-sixteenth-century portrait

Libby Sheldon and Gabriella Macaro

Fra Bartolommeo and frescoes on tiles in fifteenth to sixteenth-century Florence

Deodato Tapete, Cristina Giannini and Fabio Fratini

Sixteenth-century Netherlandish workshop practices: technical investigation of the Copenhagen version of Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple

Hannah Tempest,

Foreword

Painting and illumination in early Renaissance Florence: the techniques of Lorenzo Monaco and his workshop

Paola Ricciardi, Michelle Facini and John K. Delaney

Workshop practice in Slovenian wall paintings from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

Anabelle Križnar

Replication and variation: Roccatagliata and the female nude

Shelley Sturman

Technical characteristics of bronze statuettes from the workshops of Antonio and Giovanni Francesco Susini

Dylan Smith

The workshop practice and the construction techniques of Florentine Renaissance crucifixes

Peter Stiberc

Altarpieces in Portugal: joinery techniques within the context of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European workshop practice

Filipa Raposo Cordeiro

Early Renaissance altarpieces in Transylvania: materials and technological characteristics

Cristina Serendan, David Hradil, Janka Hradilová and Joseph Cannataci

The altarpiece of Saint Dominic of Silos by Bartolomé Bermejo: an example of painting practices during the early Spanish Renaissance

Dolores Gayo, Maite Jover and Laura Alba

Smoke and mirrors: the enhancement and simulation of gemstones in Renaissance Europe

Joanna Whalley

The San Giovanni altar from the Baptistery of Florence: the goldsmith’s workshop through the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

Pamela Bonanni, Andrea Cagnini, Natalia Cavalca, Monica Galeotti, PierAndrea Mandò, Alessandro Migliori, Simone Porcinai and Marco VeritÃ

Christ carrying the Cross: a surviving sarga by Luis de Morales: technical examination and workshop practices

Rafael Romero and Adelina Illán

The Botteghe degli Artisti: artistic enterprise at the della Rovere and Medici courts in the late sixteenth century

Erma Hermens

Some ornament prints and their link with craftsmanship

Antony Griffiths

Moveable anatomies and print shop practice in sixteenth-century Strasbourg

Theresa Smith

Visual evidence for the use of carta lucida in the Italian Renaissance workshop

Maria Clelia Galassi

Evidence for workshop practices at the Tudor mint in the Tower of London

Justine Bayley and Harriet White

Sixteenth-century life-casting techniques: experimental reconstructions based on a preserved manuscript

Tonny Beentjes and Pamela H. Smith

Bernard Palissy: scientist and potter of the Renaissance in France

Anne Bouquillon, Françoise Barbe, Patrice Lehuédé, Jacques Castaing and Thierry Crépin-Leblond

Shorter contributions and posters

Stylus drawing in the Renaissance workshop: investigating leadpoint and blind stylus in a Leonardo drawing

Jenny Bescoby, Judith Rayner and Joanna Russell

Technical analysis of a Renaissance limestone altarpiece

Ana Bidarra, Pedro Antunes, Teresa Desterro, João Coroado and Fernando Rocha

Analyses of Renaissance Venetian enamelled glasses from the Musée du Louvre

Isabelle Biron, Marco Verità , Françoise Barbe and Rosa Barovier Mentasti

Conservation and preliminary study of the alabaster sculptures in the mausoleum of Jean V de Hénnin-Liétard at Boussu, Belgium

Judy De Roy

Nero di Bicci and the diffusion of cartoons between fifteenth-century Florentine workshops

Jennifer Diorio

Research on metallic material in liturgical textiles of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: studies of production technology

Livio Ferrazza, David Juanes and Mª Gertrudis Jaén

Striptease and dressing-up in Titian’s workshop: a technical comparison of the Young Girls in the Galleria Palatina, the Hermitage and the Kunsthistorisches Museum

Helen Glanville, Patrizia Riitano and Claudio Seccaroni

A treasured Renaissance manuscript, Les Vies des femmes celebres: laboratory investigations of the miniaturist Jean Pichore’s practices and techniques

Hélène Guicharnaud and Alain Duval

Grisaille materials and techniques in European Renaissance painted enamel objects: Limoges white, binding media, chiaroscuro and the interrelationship between crafts

Nuria López-Ribalta

Reassertion of a Renaissance jewel: the investigation and interpretation of two enamelled panels from the Wallace Collection

Andrew Meek, Jamie Hood and Jeremy Warren

Describing the elusive: a project for new perspectives on the practices and the resources of illuminators in the north of Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century

Sylvie Neven

Distinctive materials in a late-sixteenth-century portrait

Libby Sheldon and Gabriella Macaro

Fra Bartolommeo and frescoes on tiles in fifteenth to sixteenth-century Florence

Deodato Tapete, Cristina Giannini and Fabio Fratini

Sixteenth-century Netherlandish workshop practices: technical investigation of the Copenhagen version of Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple

Hannah Tempest

• Edited by David Saunders
• Edited by Marika Spring
• Edited by Andrew Meek

"Las comunicaciones del congreso seleccionadas por CHARISMA, el Museo Britanico o la Galeria Nacional de Londres para esta publicacion, presentan un excelente nivel en cuanto a la claridad de exposicion, el interes del tema expuesto y el desarrollo de la metodologia cientifica empleada en cada caso particular. Otro punto a tener en cuenta es la amplitud de tecnicas artisticas afrontadas, que aportan una amplia vision sobre la magnitud del prodigioso fenomeno artistico que se produjo en el Renacimiento europeo." Ge-conservacion - 2014, pages 106-107 "The essays make a good job of revealing markers, their motives and stimuli." The Burlington Magazine - March 2015 pp 195-196
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Las comunicaciones del congreso seleccionadas por CHARISMA, el Museo Británico o la Galería Nacional de Londres para esta publicación, presentan un excelente nivel en cuanto a la claridad de exposición, el interés del tema expuesto y el desarrollo de la metodología científica empleada en cada caso particular. Otro punto a tener en cuenta es la amplitud de técnicas artísticas afrontadas, que aportan una amplia visión sobre la magnitud del prodigioso fenómeno artístico que se produjo en el Renacimiento europeo.

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The essays make a good job of revealing markers, their motives and stimuli.

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