Renaissance Watercolours: materials and techniques | V&A

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  • Опубліковано 1 гру 2020
  • Focussing on the three types of object featured in the V&A display Renaissance Watercolours: illuminated manuscripts, portrait miniatures and coloured drawings, this film showcases the qualities that made watercolour the medium of choice for many artists during the Renaissance.
    A modern-day painting of a pomegranate, using traditional watercolour techniques, by artist Lucy Smith, also demonstrates how watercolour painting remains a versatile medium, ideal for capturing life-like details that help us to record our diverse world.
    Take a look at our Watercolour Collection: www.vam.ac.uk/collections/wat...
    * Correction:
    Caption at 0:43 should read:
    Portrait miniature of Alice Brandon, Mrs. Hilliard, by Nicholas Hilliard, 1578
    End credit for this image at 4:58 should read:
    Portrait miniature of Alice Brandon, Mrs. Hilliard, by Nicholas Hilliard, 1578, France. Museum no. P.2-1942. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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  • @vamuseum
    @vamuseum  2 роки тому +4

    *Correction*:

  • @barbaramccoy3592
    @barbaramccoy3592 3 роки тому +35

    What beautiful example of Nicholas Hilliard’s breathtaking work, even to the cipher of his and his wife’s initials on both sides of her image.

  • @tea98988
    @tea98988 3 роки тому +132

    Watercolor is the most difficult to master and most under-appreciated medium in the art industry. Galleries still price watercolor much lower than the oil paintings.

  • @CeridwenHafMorys
    @CeridwenHafMorys 3 роки тому +12

    Is this really watercolour as we understand it today, or is some of it egg tempera? They're both water based mediums but it would be helpful to the audience to know the difference. I think a lot of early paintings were done in egg tempera.

  • @uyenst
    @uyenst 3 роки тому +13

    Omg, the artworks are so vibrant I thought they were contemporary recreation. Those were some top notch quality paints to stay beautiful for half a millennia!

  • @sumyungai1
    @sumyungai1 3 роки тому +8

    Whatever happened to using gloves to handle historical artifacts? I always thought gloves were needed to keep oils off the artifacts?

  • @londonhodnet4079
    @londonhodnet4079 3 роки тому +28

    Thank you for all you have done over COVID, hopefully we will be seeing you soon, love watercolour medium

  • @carinwiseman4309
    @carinwiseman4309 3 роки тому +10

    You forgot to mention that watercolor was used early on because oils were not available!

  • @ApocalypticDreams666
    @ApocalypticDreams666 3 роки тому

    Where was the explanation of materials of renaissance watercolors. Thought it was gonna explain what pigments were used. So disappointed.

  • @Red_Rebel
    @Red_Rebel 3 роки тому +2

    I love medieval art! Especially Illuminated Manuscripts and Codex

  • @SirenUniverse381
    @SirenUniverse381 3 роки тому +8

    Quite informative. Wow.😮

  • @sarroumarbeu6810
    @sarroumarbeu6810 3 роки тому +15

    2:09

  • @kanderson140
    @kanderson140 3 роки тому +1

    Beautiful objects, all of them!

  • @annettefournier9655
    @annettefournier9655 3 роки тому +7

    Those are amazing !

  • @arquemuse
    @arquemuse 3 роки тому +2

    Vraiment passionnant! Merci!

  • @obcl8569
    @obcl8569 2 роки тому +1

    EDIT: My bad! I hadn't seen the pinned comment!

  • @esotericexplorersmartinez493
    @esotericexplorersmartinez493 3 роки тому +1

    Stunning! Wonderful video

  • @marnidamoulakis3827
    @marnidamoulakis3827 2 роки тому +2

    I’d love to see a detailed video of the manuscripts you have at the museum, I love seeing them so much

  • @jconnet
    @jconnet 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you for this interesting video! Great that you are posting on watercolor. It gives us so much inspiration for the we use the technique. Please keep it coming!

  • @kathryncarter6143
    @kathryncarter6143 3 роки тому +1

    Excelente!