Episode 16 - Translucent Color
Bernardo Daddi, Santa Reparata Before the Emperor Decius, c. 1338-40
Tempera and gold on panel, 12 ¾ x 16 in (32.4 x 40.6 cm) (detail)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Marriage, 1434
Oil on oak, 32 14 x 23 1/2 in (82.2 x 60 cm) (detail)
National Gallery, London
Bernardo Daddi, Santa Reparata Before the Emperor Decius
Rogier van der Weyden, The Magdalen Reading, c. 1435
Oil on mahogany transferred from another panel
24 ½ x 21 ½ in (62.2 x 54.4 cm)
National Gallery, London
Taddeo Gaddi, Saint Julian, 1340s
Tempera on wood, gold ground, 21 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (54 x 36.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, c 1435 – 40
Oil and tempera on panel, 54 1/8 x 43 5/8 in (137.5 x 110.8 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Recommended Reading
“The materials and technique of five paintings by Rogier van der Weyden and his Workshop,” National Gallery Technical Bulletin, 1997, Vol. 18, Early Northern European Painting (1997), pp. 68-86
Conservation & Art Materials Encyclopedia Online
cameo.mfa.org