Talk on Material Splendour: Materials and Techniques of 15th and 16th Century European Painting

Talk on Material Splendour:

Materials and Techniques

of 15th and 16th Century

European Painting

Speaker: Betsy Purvis,
University of Toronto, Department of Visual Studies
Thursday, January 21, 2016 from 7 to 8 p.m.
North York Central Library Auditorium
Please register for this free program by calling 416-395-5639

This talk explores how master craftsmen and painters of the era
manipulated their materials to create gleaming, elaborately tooled
gold background tempera paintings; brilliant, crisp fresco paintings;
and sensuous, jewel-like oil paintings. We will look at a variety
of works by artist such as Beato Angelico, Jan van Eyck,
Michelangelo and Titian.