Mon Apr 22, 2019 05:09 PM

Morning Modelbuch (4/23/2019)

This portrait, attributed to Francesco Salviati, was sold last year and previously held in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. You’re probably thinking that it doesn’t have a pattern from a modelbuch. You are absolutely correct. I thought it was important to point out that while the books were in circulation and were providing patterns that would previously have required the client to hire an artist, there are other options and solutions. This all over pattern of X’s is very effective.

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