Giotto’s Technique

The video retraces the techniques used by #Giotto, #Duccio and #Simone_Martini to paint and gild the tables prepared with plaster and glue. During the fourteenth century the colors were tempered in egg red and spread by juxtaposition and fusion, the gilding could instead be performed with the gouache, mission or shell technique. To see the stratigraphy of the painting and the photograph of the whole: To see the entire painting and its cross-section visit: