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This paper discusses the latest outcomes of a research in the history and criticism of Early Modern Art, with a focus on the development of colored 'dotted' patterns. Given that the so-called 'Primitives' Tuscan Masters, such as Alesso Baldovinetti and Giovanni di Paolo, were particularly skilled in the use of this particular technique, which is found especially embodied in tempera works produced in the course of the Fifteenth Century, this line of research can be also extended to artistic practices employed in the subsequent Century. In fact, it is possible to establish a 'European paradigm' in this regard, and to track the development of dotted techniques also in Cinquecento illumination, from which the presence of such details also becomes a subject in artistic literature. Artists who have had a central role in the export, and in the development of this 'style' (Baldovinetti, Giovanni di Paolo, Attavante, Antonio de Hollanda) will be featured and addressed throughout the present study. Notes and historical fragments will be discussed here for the purposes of reading and analysing 'punctuation' methods, and for future historical developments in the understanding, and knowledge of those "refined techniques" incoloring.

The present contribution discusses the latest outcomes of a research in the history and in the criticism of Early Modern Art, with a focus on the development of colored 'dotted' patterns. Given that the so-called 'Primitives' Tuscan Masters, such as Alesso Baldovinetti and Giovanni di Paolo, were particularly skilled in the use of this peculiar technique, which is found especially embodied in tempera works produced in the course of the fifteenth Century, this research line can be also extended to artistic practices operated in the subsequent Century. In fact, it is possible to establish a 'European paradigm' in this regard, and to track the development of dotted techniques also in Cinquecento illumination, whence the presence of such details becomes also a subject in the artistic literature. Artists who have had a central role in the export, and in the development of this 'style' (Baldovinetti, Giovanni di Paolo, Attavante, Antonio de Hollanda) will be presented and addressed throughout the present study. Notes and historical fragments will be here discussed for the reading and the analysis of 'punctuation' manners, and for a future historical turn in the understanding, and the knowledge of those "raffinate technologies" used for coloring purposes.