Recess (painting)
The recess is a demonstrable change in the original conception of the picture after the completion of a painting . The old masters' painting was done in individual layers of paint. The artist laid out areas of color and shapes according to his design. He painted, e.g. B. in a landscape with figures, first the landscape and, according to the signature , left out the figures. During the next work step, he then fitted the figures into these recesses. If he changed his original pictorial concept while he was working, this meant that he made the figures larger or smaller, changed their posture, left them out or did not paint them in the recesses but placed them on the layer of paint elsewhere. These changes - gaps - can, under favorable technical conditions, be detected with the help of the infrared examination
Recesses are an important criterion for painting research . Like the Pentimentii , they only exist in original paintings. Only here did the artist "struggle with the form" and occasionally change the representation accordingly while he was working.
literature
- Johannes Taubert: For the scientific evaluation of scientific painting studies, Marburg 1956 (Dissertation, Msch. Ms.)
- Knut Nicolaus: Bild-Lexikon zur Gemäldestetermination, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7701-1243-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ Knut Nicolaus: Painting. Explore-Discover-Explore . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1979, p. 113 .