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silverpoint or silver point - A drawing point made of silver, which is used on a gesso coated surfaces, or the use of this technique, or the drawings made with it.
SILVERPOINT
A drawing method using a piece of metal, usually silver wire, drawn on a ground prepared with Chinese white, sometimes with pigment added. Return to top
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silverpoint metal pencil made of copper, brass, or bronze with a silver tip fused to it. Silverpoint drawing must be done on a specially prepared surface.
Silverpoint drawing must be done on a specially prepared surface. Silverpoint was already in use as a drawing instrument in the 14th century, and the delicate, light-gray lines produced by the silver tip, which were all identical in thickness, ...
St. Barbara. 1437. Silverpoint on paper. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.
Madonna in a Church. 1437-1439. Oil on wood. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
It is not always possible to identify the metal used, but if so, one uses the more specific term of silverpoint, goldpoint, etc. This drawing by Raphael on paper prepared with a pink ground is in silverpoint.
Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519), Study of drapery of a woman kneeling to left, c. 1477, silverpoint on red surface heightened with white, 25.8 x 19.5 cm, Corsini Gallery, Rome. See Renaissance and study.
Drawing: -The act of marking lines on a surface, and the product of such action. Also using pencil, charcoal, pen and ink. , conte crayon, markers, silverpoint, and other graphic media on paper. Return to top ...
artist Mary Cassatt (1844-1926); the prolific Childe Hassam (1859-1935) best known for his late "flag paintings"; the Indiana Munich-trained portraitist William Merritt Chase (1849-1916); Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919) who excelled in silverpoint ...
In a narrow definition of the term, a drawing is an artwork created from lines or areas of tone created with a dry medium on a piece of paper. For example, graphite pencil, charcoal, colored pencil, pastel, or silverpoint.
However, a silverpoint drawing by Durer in the Albertina Collection in Vienna shows the same model in a similar pose, clearly indicated in the inscription as Endres Durer, the painter's younger brother.
 See also: Painting, Tempera, Panel, Expression, Sketch
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