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Silverpoint (one of
several types of
metalpoint) is a
traditional drawing technique and tool
first used by
medieval scribes on m****cripts. A silverpoint...
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Madonna Litta. One,
which is
universally attributed to Leonardo, is a
metalpoint drawing of a
young woman's face in near profile, part of the
Codex Vallardi...
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shape in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Pencil drawings succeeded the
older metalpoint drawing stylus,
which used
metal instead of graphite.
Modern artists continue...
- Very rarely,
artists have
drawn with (usually decoded)
invisible ink.
Metalpoint drawing usually employs either of two metals:
silver or lead. More rarely...
- prepared, and is
devoid of "sketchy and tentative" lines.
Leonardo used
metalpoint with a
calipers and comp**** to make
precise lines, and
small tick marks...
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Jeannine Cook (born in 1944), is a
contemporary metalpoint artist who
works from her
studio in
Palma de Mallorca, Spain,
after living in the
United States...
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present as well." Her work with
metalpoint drawing over
inkjet printed images is
discussed in a
metalpoint textbook by
Susan Schwalb and Tom Mazzullo...
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Portrait of Mino da Fiesole,
metalpoint with
white gouache on blue-grey
prepared paper cut to an oval,
Chatsworth House.
Subject identified based on the...
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aesthetically very satisfying. He was one of the last
artists to use
metalpoint (literally a
sharp pointed piece of
silver or
another metal) extensively...
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George c. 1535
Black and
coloured chalks, pen and ink,
brush and ink, also
metalpoint on pale pink
prepared paper. 27.9 × 19.1 cm
Simon George of
Cornwall was...
