21-02-2018, 09:52 PM
Hunting through my archives, the only reference to sancai and sgraffito is on your blog, as far back as You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
Darren Worley makes a passing reference to it in a comment on a paper he and MarcoP published on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., but only in referencing a paper.
Back to sgraffito, surely this was only ever used in conjunction with gold or silver leaf in medieval manuscripts? Layers of ink would be impossible to scratch away in this fashion. It was done in paintings, but then the layers are of paint not ink.
When the ink in manuscripts is closely matched in two colours the technique was known as incidare (to incise), but this was not scratched away but instead carefully applied. See for example the Windmill Psalter. It created a highlight effect similar to that produced by sgraffito, but in reverse (ink is applied instead of being removed).
The Grove encyclopedia to medieval art and architecture has many mentions of sgraffito, but only in conjunction with metallic leaf when applied to manuscripts, as I said above.
Darren Worley makes a passing reference to it in a comment on a paper he and MarcoP published on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., but only in referencing a paper.
Back to sgraffito, surely this was only ever used in conjunction with gold or silver leaf in medieval manuscripts? Layers of ink would be impossible to scratch away in this fashion. It was done in paintings, but then the layers are of paint not ink.
When the ink in manuscripts is closely matched in two colours the technique was known as incidare (to incise), but this was not scratched away but instead carefully applied. See for example the Windmill Psalter. It created a highlight effect similar to that produced by sgraffito, but in reverse (ink is applied instead of being removed).
The Grove encyclopedia to medieval art and architecture has many mentions of sgraffito, but only in conjunction with metallic leaf when applied to manuscripts, as I said above.