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Cennino Cennini — Il Libro dell’Arte

c. 1400 · Book · Public Domain

A late-medieval craftsman’s handbook recording the workshop techniques of the Florentine painters — how to grind pigments, prepare panels, apply gold leaf, and paint in fresco and tempera. It is the most complete surviving guide to how art was actually made in the age of Giotto.

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