Magi Illumination from Michelino da Besozzo

Illumination on parchment mounted on a wood panel.

Egg tempera, pure pigments, lapislazuli, water gilding with gold leaf 23 3/4 on pastiglia.

cm. 12x17

Displayed at the exhibition Illuminations at the Decouvert Fine Art Gallery.

Copy from Offiziolo Bodmer,MS M.944, prayer book, Milan ca. 1430.Conserved in the Morgan Library.

Illuminator Michelino de'Molinari da Besozzo.

January from Limbourg Brothers

Illumination on parchment mounted on a wood panel, egg tempera, pure pigments, genuine lapislazuli. Gilding with gold leaf 23 3/4 on ammoniacum gum. Cm. 12x12.

Detail copy from Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, 1405-8/9. Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg (Franco-Netherlandish, active in France by 1399–1416). French; Made in Paris. Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum; 9 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. (23.8 x 16.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection.

Buon Natale

Illumination on parchment mounted on a wood panel.

Egg tempera, pure pigments, lapislazuli, water gilding with gold leaf 23 3/4 on pastiglia.

cm. 12x17

Displayed at the exhibition Illuminations at the Decouvert Fine Art Gallery.

Copy from Offiziolo Bodmer,MS M.944, prayer book, Milan ca. 1430.Conserved in the Morgan Library.

Illuminator Michelino de'Molinari da Besozzo.

Christmas lights and decorations in Florence

In Piazza Duomo the Christmas Tree and the Nativity

La Rinascente Store in Piazza della Repubblica

Eredi Chiarini in via Roma

Cellini's bronze sculpture of Perseus with the head of Medusa after the last  restoration

Illumination on parchment St. Martin of Tours: dividing cloak

Illumination on parchment mounted on a wood panel.

Egg tempera, pure pigments, lapislazuli, water gilding with gold leaf 23 3/4 on pastiglia.

cm. 12x17

Displayed at the exhibition Illuminations at the Decouvert Fine Art Gallery.

Copy from Offiziolo Bodmer,MS M.944, fol.080v, prayer book, Milan ca. 1430.Conserved in the Morgan Library.

Illuminator Michelino de'Molinari da Besozzo.

Copy of illumination from Girolamo dai Libri work in progress 3

The illumination finally finished.

The copy from Girolamo dai Libri is visible during the exhibition "Illuminations" in the Découvert Fine Art Gallery in Rockport.

Below are a few details.

Here and here you can see the working in progress in the previous posts

La miniatura finalmente finita.

La copia da Girolamo dei Libri è visibile durante l'esposizione "Illuminations" alla Galleria Decouvert Fine Art a Rockport.

Qui sotto alcuni dettagli.

Qui e qui potete vedere il working in progress nei precedenti post.

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.