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  • Bibliography

  • Gold and Gilding Technique

    Bomford, David, Jill Dunkerton, Dillian Gordon, Ashok Roy, and Jo Kirby. Art in the Making : Italian Painting before 1400: National Gallery, London, 29 November 1989 -28 February 1990. London: National Gallery, 1990.

    Cennino Cennini, and Daniel V Thompson. The Craftsman’s Handbook : The Italian “Il Libro Dell’arte.” New York: Dover, 1960.

    Kroustallis, Stefanos, Marisa Gómez González, Matilde Miquel Juan, Rocío Bruquetas Galán, and Olga Pérez Monzón. “Gilding in Spanish Panel Painting from the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries.” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 8, no. 2 (July 2, 2016): 313–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2016.1230273.

    Mojmír Svatopluk Frinta. Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting. Prague: Maxdorf, 1999.

    Prajda, Katalin. “Goldsmiths, Goldbeaters and Other Gold Workers in Early Renaissance Florence 1378-1433.” Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial-und Wirtschaftsge- schichte, 2016.

    Thompson, Daniel V. Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting. Woking: Unwin Brothers LTD., 1963.

    ———. The Practice of Tempera Painting, Etc. [with Plates.]. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1936.

    Stout, George. “A Puzzling Piece of Gold Leaf Tooling.” Notes (Fogg Art Museum) 2, no. 4 (1929): 140–52.

    Turner, Nancy. Reflecting a Heavenly Light: Gold and Other Metals in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Illumination, Found in Manuscripts in the Making, Art & Science. Edited by Stella Panayotova and Paola Ricciardi. London, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2018.

    ———. Surface Effect and Substance, as Found In: Illuminating Metalwork : Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts. Edited by Shannon L Wearing and Joseph Salvatore Ackley. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.

    Post, Chandler R. A History of Spanish Painting, the Aragonese School in the Late Middle Ages. The Aragonese School in the Late Middle Ages. Vol. 8, Part II. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1944.

    Skaug, Erling S. Punch Marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico : Attribution, Chronology, and Workshop Relationships in Tuscan Panel Painting : With Particular Consideration to Florence, C. 1330-1430. Vol. II. Oslo: Iic Nordic Group, The Norwegian Section, 1994.

  • Technical Analysis

    Baldassarri, Monica, Gildo de Holanda Cavalcanti, Marco Ferretti, Astrik Gorghinian, Emanuela Grifoni, Stefano Legnaioli, Giulia Lorenzetti, et al. “X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of XII–XIV Century Italian Gold Coins.” Journal of Archaeology 2014 (October 8, 2014): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/519218.

    Ciatti, Marco, and Galleria Degli Uffizi. L’incoronazione Della Vergine Del Botticelli : Restauro E Richerche. Firenze: Edifir, 1990.

    MacLennan, Douglas, Laura Llewellyn, John K. Delaney, Kathryn A. Dooley, Catherine Schmidt Patterson, Yvonne Szafran, and Karen Trentelman. “Visualizing and Measuring Gold Leaf in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Italian Gold Ground Paintings Using Scanning Macro X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy: A New Tool for Advancing Art Historical Research.” Heritage Science 7, no. 1 (May 10, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-019-0271-0.

    Mounier, Aurélie, Floréal Daniel, and F. Bechtel. “Gilding Techniques in Mural Paintings: Three Examples from the Romanesque Period in France.” Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, 13th - 16th May 2008, Siena, Italy, October 29, 2010, 273–78. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7_39.

    North, Rachel. “The Holy Trinity with Saints John the Baptist, Mary Magdalen, Tobias and Raphael by Botticelli and Assistants: A Technical Examination for Attribution.” The Conservator 21, no. 1 (January 1997): 3–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/01410096.1997.9995110.

  • Botticelli Monographs

    Lightbown, R W. Sandro Botticelli : Life and Work. London: Thames And Hudson, 1989.

    Merrifield, Maria Philadelphia. Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting : Original Texts with English Translations. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1999.

    Zöllner, Frank. Botticelli. Munich ; London: Prestel, 2005.

  • Botticelli and The Divine Comedy

    Hein-Th Schulze Altcappenberg, Horst Bredekamp, Isabel Carlisle, and Et Al. Sandro Botticelli : The Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy. London: Royal Academy Of Arts, 2001.

  • Florence

    Compton, Rebekah. Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. Copyright, 2021.

    Geronimus, Dennis V., and Louis A. Waldman. “Children of Mercury: New Light on the Members of the Florentine Company of St. Luke (C. 1475-c. 1525).” Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz , 47, no. 1 (2003). https://www.jstor.org/stable/27655332?seq=1.

    Girolamo Gargiolli. L’ Arte Della Seta in Firenze : Trattato Del Secolo XV Pubblicato per La Prima Volta, E Dialoghi / [2] Trattato Dell’arte Della Seta. Firenze: Giunti, 1995. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b244433&view=1up&seq=96&skin=2021.

    Lydecker, John Kent. The Domestic Setting of the Arts in Renaissance Florence. 1987. Reprint, Ann Arbor, Mi: Umi Dissertation Services, 2005.

    Rubin, Patricia Lee, Nicholas Penny, and Alison Wright. Renaissance Florence : The Art of the 1470s. London: National Gallery Publications Limited ; [New Haven, Conn, 1999.

  • Textiles

    Herald, Jacqueline. Renaissance Dress in Italy 1400-1500. London: Bell And Hyman ; Atlantic Highlands, 1981.

    Hoeniger, Cathleen S. “Cloth of Gold and Silver: Simone Martini’s Techniques for Representing Luxury Textiles.” Gesta 30, no. 2 (1991): 154–62. https://doi.org/10.2307/767057.

  • Light

    Hess, Thomas B, and John Ashbery. Light: From Aten to Laser. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

    Hills, Paul. The Light of Early Italian Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

  • Sandro Botticelli

    Burroughs, Charles. “Indicating Heaven: Botticelli’s ‘Coronation of the Virgin’ and Mediated Imagery.” Artibus et Historiae 35, no. 69 (2014): 9–34.

    O’Malley, Michelle. “Quality Choices in the Production of Renaissance Art: Botticelli and Demand.” Renaissance Studies 28, no. 1 (April 22, 2013): 4–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12002.

    ———. The Business of Art : Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

    Parenti, Daniela. “Madonna Col Bambino E Angeli (Madonna Del Magnificat) by Botticelli | Artworks | Uffizi Galleries.” www.uffizi.it. Accessed May 10, 2022. https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/botticelli-madonna-of-the-magnificat#text.

    Pattillo Jr., N. Allen. “Botticelli as a Colorist.” The Art Bulletin 36, no. 3 (September 1954): 203. https://doi.org/10.2307/3047562.

    Van Der Sman, Gert. “Sandro Botticelli at Villa Tornabuoni and a Nuptial Poem by Naldo Naldi.” Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 51, no. 1/2 (2007): 159–86. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41310683?seq=1.

    Waldman, Louis. “‘Botticelli and His Patrons: The Arte Del Cambio, the Vespucci, and the Compagnia Dello Spirito Santo in Montelupo,’ in Sandro Botticelli and Herbert Horne: New Research.” Edited by Rab Hatfield and Barbara Deimling. The Villa Rossa Series: Intercultural Perspectives on Italy and Europe 63, no. 2 (2010): 105–15. https://doi.org/10.1086/655263.

  • Carlo Crivelli

    Wright, Alison. Crivelli’s Divine Materials, as Found In, Ornament & Illusion : Carlo Crivelli of Venice. London: Paul Holberton Publishing ; Boston, 2015.

  • General

    Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting. London ; New York: Penguin, 2004.

    Alexander, J J G, Paul Binski, and Royal Academy. Age of Chivalry : Art in Plantagenet England, 1200-1400. London: Royal Academy Of Arts, 1987.

    Cascone, Sarah. “Preserving the Sistine Chapel Is a Never-Ending Task. See Stunning Behind-The-Scenes Photos of What It Takes.” Artnet News, March 28, 2019. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/conservation-sistine-chapel-1499899.

    Laurie, M.A., A.P. Cantor Lectures on the Pigments and Vehicles of the Old Masters. 1891. Reprint, W. Trouce, London: The Journal of the Society of Arts, 1892.