Old Master Techniques

Leonardo da Vinci’s

Mona Lisa

1503-1506

Sfumato

Leonardo’s

Ginevra d’Benci

c. 1474-1478

Leonardo’s

Adoration of the Magi

1480

Grisaille

Peter Paul Rubens’

The Three Graces

(1630’s)

Grisaille

Rubens

Phillip IV of Spain

(1630’s)

(Detroit Institute of the Arts)

Peter Paul Rubens

Portrait of his wife Isabella Brandt

17th C Flemish

(Cleveland Museum of Art)

Rembrandt van Rijn

Portrait of the Merchant Marten Looten

1632

(Los Angeles County Museum)

Rembrandt van Rijn

Self Portrait

1628

Rembrandt’s

Raising of Lazarus

1631-1632

(Los Angeles County Museum)

Chiaroscuro

Titian’s Venus and Adonis (16th C. Italian) The Metropolitan Museum, New York

Jean Honoré Fragonard

C. 1769

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Student work

Student work

Now for the demonstration…