1. Giorgio Vasari. The Art of Painting. 1542.

2. Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting. 1630. 35 1/4 x 29 in.

3. Terms: Binder – holds particles of pigment together. Support – The surface on which the artist works Solvent – A thinner that enables the paint to flow more readily on the surface. Ground – placed on the support or surface of a work before the painting begins.

4. Encaustic – Painting made by combining pigment with a binder of hot wax. Fresco – painting on plaster buon fresco – paint is applied to a wet wall fresco secco – paint is applied to a dry wall Tempera – a medium made by combining water, pigment and a binder. Early Painting Mediums:

5. Mummy Portrait of a Man. c. 160–170 CE. 14 x 18 in. Encaustic on wood Encaustic – Painting made by combining pigment with a binder of hot wax.

6. Still Life with Eggs and Thrushes, Villa of Julia Felix, Pompeii. before 79 CE. 35 x 48 in. fresco secco – paint is applied to a dry wall

7. Bodhisattva from Cave I at Ajanta. c. 475 CE. fresco secco – paint is applied to a dry wall In this case a cave

8. Giotto. Lamentation. c. 1305. approximately 70 x 78 in. buon fresco – paint is applied to a wet wall

9. Fra Andrea Pozzo. The Glorification of Saint Ignatius. 1691–94. Fresco – painting on plaster

10. Michelangelo, The Libyan Sibyl 1511-12, Details of the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Fresco – painting on plaster

11. Giotto. Madonna and Child Enthroned. c. 1310. 10 ft. 8 in. x 6 ft. 8 1/4 in. Tempera – a medium made by combining water, pigment and a binder (usually egg was used as the binder).

12. Mediums: Oil paint – Pigment with an oil binder. Thinned with paint thinner. Watercolor - Pigment and Gum Arabic. Thinned with water. Gouache – Watercolor mixed with chinese white chalk and dries more opaque. Acrylic – Acrylic resins thinned with water Mixed media – combining multiple mediums in a work of art.

13. Diagram of a section of a fifteenth-century oil painting demonstrating the luminosity of the medium.

14. Jan de Heem, Still Life with Lobster, late 1640s. Oil on canvas, 25 1/8 x 33 ¼ in.

15. Robert Campin, ca. 1425, The Annunciation Oil on wood, triptych

16. Milton Resnick’s. U + Me in progress. 7/26/1995. Oil on canvas

17. Milton Resnick. U + Me. 1995. 93 1/4 x 104 1/2 in. Oil on canvas

18. Jacob Lawrence, Gouache on paper, 1942-43 Gouache – Watercolor mixed with Chinese white chalk and dries more opaque.

19. Winslow Homer. A Wall, Nassau. 1898., Watercolor 14 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. Watercolor - Pigment and Gum Arabic. Thinned with water.

20. Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram. 1955–59. 42 x 63 1/4 x 64 1/2 in.

21. Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram, First State.

22. Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram, Second State.

23. Romare Bearden, The Dove 1964, Cut-out-pasted photo reproductions and papers, gouache and pencil on cardboard, 133/8 x 18 ¾ in.

24. Closer Look: Choose a painting from the Menil Collection. Write three-paragraphs (five sentences each) about the painting.