Rivista | Venezia Arti
Fascicolo monografico | 29 | 2020
Articolo | Il pastello nel Settecento europeo tra sapere scientifico e pratica artistica
Il pastello nel Settecento europeo tra sapere scientifico e pratica artistica
Abstract
The study of several French, British and Italian art treatises, articles, essays, and correspondences (mainly from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) leads to the analysis of the art of pastel as an example of the relation between scientific knowledge and artistic practice. The importance of following strictly specific recipes, as for the fixative methods as well, reveals not only the presence of a pragmatic purpose, but also aesthetic motives that could be connected to the development of the pastel practice in eighteenth-century Europe.
Presentato: 15 Settembre 2020 | Accettato: 16 Settembre 2020 | Pubblicato 11 Dicembre 2020 | Lingua: it
Keywords Eighteenth century • Scientific knowledge • Pigments • Recipes • Pastel practice
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2020/01/005
