ORV 312 - Tempera Painting Studio at Orvieto

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The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the fascinating yet demanding techniques of traditional egg tempera painting on wooden panel (a dominant medium during the Medieval and Renaissance periods in Italy and Europe), learning how to prepare the panel, gesso it with a prepared glue and pigment, prepare colors from natural materials. An underlying goal is to learn to live one’s creativity together with prayer, the gospel and one’s personal sensitivity, learning to listen in order to discover God’s talent given to us; and to inhabit the long tradition of our predecessor-painters, learning through them, questioning their works, learning how to use their main pictorial tools and to give a form to what emerges from one’s self and one’s devotion to a biblical text or subject.