Some Notes to the Technique of Boccaccino’s Drawings

Abstract

In terms of the hitherto known body of Boccaccio Boccaccino’s drawings, the only support used was paper, clean, tinted, and colourfully prepared. Boccaccino drew, to a limited extent, using a metal stylus (lead stylus was also employed for squaring) and a pen. Much more often, he would use a brush, red chalk, or black chalk. The support used for Boccaccino’s drawing of St. Jerome, nowadays kept in Munich, was a green-ochre prepared paper.

Keywords

• boccaccio boccaccino (ferrara, ante 1466 – cremona, 1525)
• cremona
• venezia
• drawing
• technique
• 15th_16th century