Paint and Its Surface
Titian
The Vendramin Family, venerating a Relic of the True Cross
about 1540–45
Oil on canvas, 206.1 × 288.5 cm. The National Gallery, London
Nearly 3 m wide, this canvas is a single piece with no seam, woven in a patterned twill.
- Patterned cloth like this was woven far wider than a meter.
- It has been lined, backed with a second canvas, probably three times, most recently with wax-resin in 1961.
Concepts
Image: Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (PD-Art)