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Cennini, Cennino (c. 1370–c. 1440)

Italian painter and writer, who wrote a practical manual on painting Il libro dell'arte/The Book of Art (c. 1390), an important source of information on the workshops of the early Renaissance. None of his paintings survives.

Born in Colle di Val d'Elsa, near Siena, he went to Florence to be a pupil of Agnolo Gaddi, who worked in the tradition of Giotto. The Book of Art explains in detail a range of techniques for panel painting and for fresco painting. While, as reflected in contemporary Italian practice, much of the discussion is taken up with painting in tempera, he also mentions oil painting as a German practice.

Cennini's work was copied and remained in circulation into the 16th century, when Giorgio Vasari saw a copy.



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The idea that composition enters the realm of teachable art and that the painter's management of composition is to be advanced as the principal means for the presentation of a story, is contrasted with the somewhat earlier writings on art of Cennino Cennini, who, as Kuhn observes, is silent on these matters.
Erfindung und Komposition in der Monumentalen Zyklischen ... by Riess, Jonathan B. / Renaissance Quarterly
This is why it is most often thrown back to that "before the time of art"--that ill-defined sphere of the artisan--of which Cennino Cennini spoke willingly and of which Alberti never spoke,(14) or else to an "after the time of art," that sphere, again scorned, of so-called "nonworks" or Duchampian ready-mades.
Critical reflections by Kraus, Rosalind / Artforum International
According to Cennino Cennini, in the first chapter of his Libro dell'Arte, there is a certain
An exemplary humanist hybrid: Vasari's "Fraude" with reference to ... by Moffitt, John F. / Renaissance Quarterly
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