{"id":11158,"date":"2020-03-01T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T13:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=11158"},"modified":"2022-06-21T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T11:21:41","slug":"be-my-guest-cennino-dandrea-cennini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/be-my-guest-cennino-dandrea-cennini\/","title":{"rendered":"Be my Guest: Cennino d’Andrea Cennini"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cennino d’Andrea Cennini was an Italian painter in the 14th century. He worked in Florence and was inspired by Giotto<\/h3>\n

His book The Craftsman’s Handbook is a foundation corner in the history of the art of the Renaissance.<\/h3>\n

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As an art student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in the 70ies, it was a surprisingly lovely practical text. I love to watch people working; thus, by reading his book, I could imagine how one creates paints, brushes, papers mostly from nature itself.<\/h3>\n

I imagined old Giotto climbing the mountains to find the right stone to grind for his paints.<\/h3>\n

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The index makes me smile every time I read it as it is a nutshell of what it meant to be an artist in the Renaissance. How the craftsmanship was a crucial foundation for the creation of the alchemical artistic process, all the masters have left us.<\/h3>\n

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When I was teaching art, I used to read a few lines from the index to my students. It served me as a tool to convey how art was perceived in the Renecanse and how it is different today.<\/h3>\n

For example, there is a chapter titled: “How to paint a dead man.”<\/h3>\n

It is vital knowledge as you need to know how to paint Jesus! It also indicates that there is a precise way to do that.<\/h3>\n

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I invite Cennini to be a part of the imaginary Alexandrian Library I am reviving through pixels.<\/h3>\n

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For you who are new to my art, I will share that I conduct an on-going art project trying to revive the Great Alexandrian library on-line.<\/h3>\n

I am adding to the pixel library fragments of what I think the scribes would have found valuable and copy as another scroll to the collection. I do this as a memorial notice for us not to do such harm again as to burn all the knowledge we have.\u00a0<\/h3>\n

The scholars would have been very appreciative of Ceninie’s practical knowledge.<\/h3>\n

The Egyptians were deeply involved in materials to mummify the Pheroes, for papyrus making, for creating paints and jewelry, etc. They would probably try all his suggestions.<\/h3>\n

So now we can play a game and mix times and ask:<\/h3>\n

What would have happened to the Egyptian arts if they had Ceninie’s book?<\/h3>\n

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In my mind and some help from my sand tray \u2013 I present Cenini’s book to the scholars of the Great Library to add to their shelves.<\/h3>\n

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I sneak behind his back and add Lo Spirito Della Materia, I wrote with a colleague and humbly place it on the shelf.<\/h3>\n

We could not have written it without his text.\u00a0<\/h3>\n

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The Spirit of Matter and the Italian version Lo Spirito Della Materia can be found here.<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

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The upper image is\u00a0 by Cennino Cennini, Beatified Bishop and Beatified Pope, Gem\u00e4ldegalerie, Berlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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