Imprimitur
The imprimitur is a thin layer of paint that lies directly on the primer of a board painting . It was applied in Italian painting before, in German and Dutch painting after the signature .
application
By manufacturing with a wide variety of binders and pigments , the artist reduced the absorbency of the plaster (gesso) or chalk primer to the desired extent and obtained a neutral base for the plastic light-dark structure of the underpainting . Depending on the coloring, one can find light to dark tinted, transparent to opaque imprints in European panel painting .
Around 1460 Filarete first reported in his treatise about a coating of a drying oil with small amounts of white lead (to accelerate the drying / oxidation process) on the primer and other colors. This is where the beginnings of the imprimitur can be assumed. The term imprimitur appears for the first time in the Italian art literature of the 16th century and is explained in detail by Giorgio Vasari .
The artists often used pigments that have a high reactivity with drying oils, for example white lead, which was added in small quantities to a coloring pigment such as ocher . As a result, the imprimitur dried / oxidized faster and allowed work on the painting to continue soon.
literature
- Knut Nicolaus: DuMont's handbook of painting. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2003. ISBN 3-8321-7288-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Knut Nicolaus: DuMont's image lexicon for determining paintings . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7701-1243-1 , p. 105 .
- ^ Antonio Filarete: Trattato di architettura . In: W. von Öttingen (Hrsg.): Sources for art history and art technology of the Middle Ages and modern times . NF 3. Vienna 1890.
- ^ Giogio Vasari: Le vite de 'piu eccelenti architetti, pittori et scultori italiani, Florence 1550 . Ed .: German by Ludwig Schorn and Ernst Förster. Stuttgart and Tübingen 1988.