How was The Adoration of the Kings made?
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New styles of painting emerged in Italy during the Renaissance, when Nelli was painting. However, the methods used to create panel paintings usually followed a similar series of steps. Painters would usually layer a ground made of gypsum and glue, an under-drawing, overlapping paint layers made from a mixture of pigments and binding materials such as animal glue, egg, or siccative oil, and a final varnish.
It was also typical of 15th-century Italian panel paintings to use tempera paint, which was a mix of egg, pigment and a water-soluble binder. Many Italian panel paintings of this time also used the technhique of incamottatura, applying a layer of raw canvas to prepare, cover, and make uniform the wooden panel on which it was painted.
Ryan Carter, Class of 2025, College of the Holy Cross
