Painting on parchment besides miniatures: scientific analyses and a study of the artistic techniques of Giovannino de' Grassi's model book

AbstractThe interesting but little studied subject of painting on parchment is discussed from both art-historical and conservation points of view. Reference is made to literary sources, and to an outstanding group of small paintings by Florentine artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Finally, a study is presented on research carried out on a late fourteenth-century model book belonging to the Civic Library in Bergamo.