Assessment Schedule: Arthist/3/3 B3: Renaissance Painting Techniques

3.3 Assessment schedule: Examine techniques and processes in Italian Renaissance Painting

Task Evidence towards achievement Evidence towards achievement Evidence towards achievement with merit with excellence Task One The main steps used in the painting As for achievement. As for achievement. Step by step processes for tempera, fresco and oil instructions manual are accurately described and for making fresco, sequenced. gilded tempera and oil paintings. Fresco Arriccio applied to the wall, under drawing in red paint (sinopia)sketched onto plaster, thin plaster (intonaco) applied to the areas to be painted that day etc.

Gilded Tempera Panel Seasoned plank, size, linen, gesso,drawing, gilding, burnishing, tempera paint (including mixing).

Oil Gesso, coat of lead white, mixing paint, layering of paint and glazes, varnish. Task Evidence towards achievement Evidence towards achievement Evidence towards achievement with merit with excellence Task Two For each medium and painting points As for achievement As for achievement. Comparison of the clearly identify the effects achieved effects of media and through the media and processes for Evidence from this task may be used Evidence from this task may be used processes. at least three of the elements listed. to supplement the evidence given in to supplement the evidence given in Eg. Task Three (below) to meet the Task Three (below) to meet the Fresco (Giotto, Lamentation) criteria for Achievement with Merit. criteria for Achievement with Merit. Colour - blue of the sky applied a secco giving a rich effect, while drapery, figures and setting produced through buon fresco giving a more subdued effect. Tempera (Duccio’s Maesta) Colour - medium enables a wide range of rich colouring effects such as the dark blue of the mantle of the Virgin and the red clothing worn by the Saints in the front. Gilding of the background and halos produces a heavenly glow around the figures, making the image appear divine or other worldly. Oil (Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks) Colour – Oil paint enables a wide range of different colours from dark shadows through to chiaroscuro of the faces and bodies of the figures. A light blue sfumato is used in the distant background to create a sense of aerial perspective. Overall colour is much more naturalistic, Task Evidence towards achievement Evidence towards achievement Evidence towards achievement with merit with excellence representing an earthly rather than heavenly scene. Oil enables colour to be deep and translucent. (The same would be expected for two more elements eg. form and line) Task Three The importance of media and The impact of media, processes, style Essay processes in producing different and content in the art works is effects is explained in relation to the evaluated. art works. e.g. The richness of colour produced e.g. the more rapid application of by tempera paint coupled with the paint in fresco and the need for the gilding creates a sense of divine works to be able to be seen from a beauty or other worldliness. This distance mean that form is more media was inappropriate for loosely worked and less detailed than conveying more naturalistic or in a finer medium such as oil or secular scenes due to its inability to tempera. convincingly represent shadow and light. The colours created by the fresco medium were slightly more naturalistic as they were muted by the white plaster, but the inability to achieve dark colours meant that shadows too remained muted and unrealistic. The speed at which fresco painters had to work meant that figures were often simplified, with unnecessary detail left out. The wide range of colours that could be achieved by oil paint meant that oil paintings were much more naturalistic as they depicted both Task Evidence towards achievement Evidence towards achievement Evidence towards achievement with merit with excellence bright light and strong shadow. It also took a long time to dry meaning that paint could be blended on the surface of the painting and a large degree of detail could be achieved. The layering of glazes enabled artists to create translucent effects, which added to the sense of glowing natural light.