The 14th-Century Venetian Painter’s Studio

Join artist Chris Holt in this workshop to explore the technique of egg tempera painting as executed by the Venetians. Participants prepare substrates of wood and paper as well as pigment colors in egg yolk and discuss the technique in the morning. In the afternoon they create a small work of art. Students leave with an understanding and the experience of making a painting just as it was done in 14th-century Venice.

Image: A painter from Venice, Doge Francesco Morosini Offers Venice the Conquered Morea, 19th century, oil on canvas, 70.1 × 50 in., Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia – Museo Correr, Cl. I n. 2301