Retouching a painting on canvas

Different stages from clearing test to retouching the color.

Exhibition at Dècouvert Fine Art

Iluminations is an exhibition of  my copies of illuminated miniatures from the 12th to 15th centuries.

It opens this Saturday 16 November 12 noon and can be viewed through Christmas at the Decouvert Fine Art Gallery,

73 Main Streat Rockport.

the Gallery specializes in American, European and Old Master Drawings, French Medals, object d'art, stained glass, and artist from Provence and Tuscany.

Here the Facebook Page of the Gallery.

Here below some images of the working in progress

Michelino da Besozzo St. Martin

Michelino da Besozzo St. Martin

Limbourg Brothers October

Limbourg Brothers October 

Aberdeen Bestiary the Peridens Tree

Aberdeen Bestiary the Peridens Tree

Copy of illumination from Girolamo dai Libri work in progress 2

In my previous post I shared the preparatory drawing for this copy with the reconstruction of the lost portion of the letter d and the decoration.

As you can see at this stage is lacking of ligths and darks and some details.

Below the various stages 

In un mio precedente post avevo condiviso il disegno preparatorio per questa copia con la ricostruzione della parte persa della lettera d e di tutta la decorazione esterna. 

Come potete vedere in questa fase mancano luci ombre, e alcuni dettagli.

Qui sotto le varie fasi di lavorazione.

drawing on the parchment mounted on a wood panel

water gilding with gold leaf 23 3/4 on bole and pastiglia

the gilded part burnished

background colors, egg tempera, pure pigments, genuine lapislazuli.

Lucca Comics 2013

Grandi novità per Artemisia in questo autunno. Chi mi conosce sa della mia passione per i fumetti, e in questa edizione di Lucca Comics and Games sarò presente con due lavori.

Great news for Artemisia this fall. Anyone who knows me knows about my love of comic books, and in this edition of Lucca Comics and Games will be present with two works.

Il primo è Giotto un fumetto realizzato a quattro mani col mio compagno Francesco Frongia.
Il libro racconta la vita sul cantiere di Giotto e la tecnica di esecuzione degli affreschi in Santa Croce. All'interno troverete una parte del fumetto realizzata realmente in affresco.
Allego qualche foto di lavorazione.


The first is Giotto made with my partner Francesco Frongia.
The book tells the story of Giotto on the scaffolding and the technique of execution of the frescoes in Santa Croce. Inside you will find a part of the comic real made ​​in fresco.
Here some pictures of making-of.

foto Eugenio Chen

foto Eugenio Chen

Qui potete vedere una preview.
Il volume edito da Kleiner Flug lo trovate nello loro stand a Lucca Comics padiglione Giglio.


Here you can see a preview.
The book published by Kleiner Flug can be found in their stand at Lucca Comics pavilion Giglio.

L'altra novità è un manga in 8 tavole pubblicato sulla rivista giapponese Crush che è il lavoro finale del corso che ho frequentato  "Diventare Mangaka in un anno" organizzato dalla Scuola Internazionale di Comics di Firenze insieme alla Tokyo Animator Gakuin.

The other news is a manga in 8 plates published in the Japanese magazine Crush which is the final work of the course that I attended "Becoming Mangaka in a year" organized by the International School of Comics in Florence together with the Tokyo Gakuin Animator.

Tre tavole del mio manga saranno esposte a Lucca comics and Games nel Japan Palace. La rivista sarà presentata  sabato alle 17.00 sempre al Japan Palace. Sarà presente anche l'editor Masahiro Ohno della Shonen Gahosha.
Il manga sarà presto pubblicato sul sito della rivista in giapponese e italiano.


Three plates of my manga will be exposed at Lucca Comics and Games in the Japan Palace. The magazine will be presented on Saturday at 17.00 always at the Japan Palace. There will be the editor of Shonen Gahosha Masahiro Ohno.
The manga will soon be published on the website of the magazine in Japanese and Italian.

Copy of illumination from Girolamo dai Libri work in progress

I'm working on a copy of this illumination from Girolamo Dai Libri.

My client ask me to paint the missing part of the letter D, so after comparing all kinds of illuminations from this painter, I arrived at this solution...

10 years of Artemisia

Atelier Borgo San Jacopo 11, Via Ramaglianti 2

Today is a special day, it is the tenth anniversary of the inauguration of my atelier Artemisia Restauro.

It was just 9 September 2003!

I share these pictures of my atelier from the first in a little store inside Palazzo Pucci near to the Duomo where began this adventure to 88R Via Romana, to Piazza San Felice up to the present site in the Borgo San Jacopo 11, via Ramaglianti 2, site of the old synagogue in Florence.

I thank all the people who believed in my work and who continue to support me.

We're a little crazy and we continue to believe that it is possible to have an art studio in the historic center of Florence.

Oggi è un giorno speciale, è il decimo anniversario dell'inaugurazione della mia bottega Artemisia Restauro. 

Era proprio il 9 settembre 2003!

Condivido queste immagini del mio atelier dal primo in un piccolissimo fondo dentro Palazzo Pucci vicissimo al Duomo in cui è iniziata questa avventura, passando per via Romana 88R, Piazza San Felice fino alla attuale sede i Borgo San Jacopo 11, via Ramaglianti 2, sede dell'antica sinagoga di Firenze.

Ringrazio tutte le persone che hanno creduto nel mio lavoro e che continuano a sostenermi.

Siamo un po folli e continuamo a credere che sia possibile avere una bottega d'arte nel centro storico di Firenze.

The window in Via dei Pucci 4

Palazzo Pucci, the atelier was inside on the rigth

Via Romana 88R

Via Romana, the workshop

Piazza San Felice 1R the window

Piazza San Felice

Piazza San Felice the painted ceiling

Illumination from Saint Albans Psalter

Illumination from a leaf of Saint Albans Psalter, David as a musician.

Egg tempera, pure pigments, genuine lapislazuli and gold leaf 23 3/4 on parchment.

Here the link of the Saint Albans project of the University of Aberdeen

The miniature mounted into the mat ready for shipment. Will be on sale in the Getty Museum Gift Store on the occasion of the exhibition Canterbury and St Albans: Treasures from Church and Cloister

September 20, 2013-February 2, 2014

Design on the parchment

Gilding with gold leaf 23 3/4 on ammoniacum gum

The illumination gilded

Scoppio del Carro Pasqua 2013

Again this year many people attended the Explosion of the Cart in Piazza Duomo. The "colombina" a dove powered by a rocket goes to the altar and go back. Today, the dove stops before and for some this is a sign of bad luck but in fact the dove has also set fire to the cart said "Brindellone".
I share a video from youtube because today we saved the little Tetsuo this event which usually frightens him.

Tetsuo in the bag at the Scoppio del Carro 2011

Panel paintings and frescoes in a art Saturday

diptych attributed to the painter from Lucca Bonaventura
Berlinghieri, half of the thirteenth century
Photo Wikimedia Commons

Croce 432 anonymous painter of Pisa,
last quarter of the twelfth centuryPhoto Wikimedia Commons

Croce 434 anonymous Florentine painter,
middle of the thirteenth centuryPhoto Wikimedia Commons

Having finally free time after weeks of intense work, I took a walk in the historic center. At the end of the morning I visited the exhibition of the three oldest paintings in the Uffizi just restored and on display in the church of San Pier Scheraggio until March 29 (the entrance is free and in the first portal to the left in the loggia of the Uffizi). I share photos of the paintings before restoration but here you can see a gallery of photos after the restoration.

In the afternoon, passing through the narrow streets of the city near the Casa di Dante I visited the Oratory of San Martino seat of the Company of Buonomini, a benefit company founded in 1441. The interior is richly decorated with frescoes in the lunettes, attributed by some to the workshop of Ghirlandaio but for others to Francesco d'Antonio del Chierico. On the altar a wooden sculpture painted of St. Anthony attributed to Verrocchio. To the right of the door the hole for alms unfortunately with a "graffito".

Photo Wikimedia Commons

Illumination from the Bible of Borso d'Este

Illumination from the Bible of Borso d'Este.

Egg tempera, pure pigments, genuine lapislazzuli, gold leaf 23 3/4 on parchment cm. 4,5x4,5.

Below you can see the working in progress.

design on parchment

preparation of gilding with gum ammoniacum

painting with egg tempera