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​Week One in the Books

16/6/2019

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Florence day tripDay trip to Florence, Wednesday Florence is only a little over an hour by train from Lucca; and, not being a large city, but a rich one, it is easy to see a lot of things in a short time. Some highlights here (clockwise from upper left) are Palazzo Strozzi and the Verocchio show, Zecchi art supply shop, the cathedral works down the street from Zecchi, and the atrium of Ss. Annunziata with frescoes by Pontormo, Rosso, and their teacher Andrea del Sarto
Some highlights from week one of Summer 2019.


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Lucca is a unique base for the study of Renaissance art and architecture principles, with great buildings and works of art by Tuscan artists, a history of producing its own artists (especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), and a variety of cultural and natural resources within a short distance...
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DRAWING THE RENAISSANCE

11/6/2019

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Loggia dell'Ammannati

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​This beautiful summer morning we drew a part of the Palazzo Ducale complex, the late sixteenth-century loggia by Bartolomeo Ammannati. Ammannati was a remarkable figure of the late Renaissance, having trained under Bacio Bandinelli in Florence, then working under Jacopo Sansovino in Venice (particularly on the sculptures of the Libreria Marciana on the Piazzetta di S. Marco). A sculptor by formation and talent, he found his way to architecture in the Rome of Julius III, particularly at the Villa Giulia but also the Palazzo di Firenze (formerly Medici), before returning to Florence. There he practiced as both sculptor (Neptune fountain, Piazza della Signoria) and architect (Palazzo Pitti); he was Michelangelo’s executor for the Laurentian Library stair.
 
Drawing a part of one of the façade bays in two-point perspective, we were concerned to both delineate and shade the subject accurately from our position on a bench in the Piazza Napoleone. Needless to say, we did not use sight-size, rather propping the sketchbook on our laps and constantly looking from subject to drawing, training the memory as well as the hand.
 
After the view (about half an hour) we quickly documented the molding profiles. On site drawing of architecture is both documentary and analytical, and Renaissance artists and architects dissected buildings as well as bodies.
 
Follow the progress in the images below. Can you name the sequences of molding profiles?

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Looking at the subject
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Looking at the drawing
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Layout: horizon line, raking lines to vanishing point (off the sheet), centerline, roughing in the forms for shape and proportion
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Laying in the upper panel. The stone is pietra arenaria (sandstone), darker therefore than the surrounding stucco
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The completed drawing, in graphite. The documentation is indicative, relying on major tone changes (shades and shadows) to distinguish forms and planes. It is not a photograph.

Note how Ammannati varies the sequences of moldings between the upper and lower cornices. Also note how the plane of the niche is recessed with respect to the plane of the stucco wall.
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