Lydia Nielsen, 7th Grade The art of the triptyck, we studied, was based in the Gothic period. The artists the students were introduced to were Giotto and Van Eyck. Both artists used religious subject matter. Students were encourage to think about a three part composition that could include the change of seasons, stages of growth, metamorphosis, three related compositions. We used tempera on board. Materials Sketchbook Pencil Illustration board or thick paper Tempera paint Brushes ![]() Giotto 1266-1337 When Giotto was a young boy tending sheep in the mountains of northern Italy, he drew pictures to pass the time. A traveling artist discovered Giotto’s drawings and offered him an apprenticeship. There he learned how to make paint from different minerals which could be used to create different colors of paint. Giotto is best known for painting people who appeared three-dimensional rather than flat. Many paintings of Giotto’s time were made with egg tempera on special panels of wood. Egg tempera is made by grinding minerals, berries, clay, even insects into a fine powder and mixing it with egg yolk and water. This paint makes a thin fast drying coat of bright color. Van Eyck 1395-1441 Jan van Eyck was the most famous painter of northern Europe in the 1400’s. Van Eyck was the first artist to really master oil paints, a new material in his time. Unlike egg tempera oil paints could be applied in thick coats and in thin glazes and could create rich velvety colors that glow. One of van Eyck’s most famous paintings is an altar piece called a triptych, which is a wood framed panel made in three parts. There are pictures on the outside of the panels when it is folded shut, and more on the inside when it is opened up.
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