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sign-writer's brush

15:55 Oct 25, 2013
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English to Italian translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / calligrafia
English term or phrase: sign-writer's brush
Non riesco a capire se il pennello da grafici coincide con il pennello piatto, a punta larga: sapete aiutarmi? Esiste un tipo di pennello "da grafico"?

The brushes used for the Roman imperial capitals were not pointed
like a Chinese brush but cut square at the end like a chisel – this is where
the thicks and thins in these letters come from, thick as the brush is
moved down its full width, and thin as the brush is moved sideways. It
was a trumpet-playing American Roman Catholic priest from Davenport,
Iowa, who first demonstrated this fact in modern times. Growing
up in an orphanage in the midwestern United States, Edward Catich,
‘Ned’ to friends, was trained initially as a sign-writer in Chicago but
went on to study for the priesthood in Rome in the 1930s. While he was
there, he looked at examples of Roman lettering. He noticed, particularly
through a study of the letters on Trajan’s column, from which
he made rubbings and tracings and eventually a cast,9 that these letters
showed characteristics of having been written with a SIGN-WRITER'S BRUSH.
budu
Local time: 16:32


Summary of answers provided
3pennello da cartellonista
cynthiatesser
Summary of reference entries provided
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7yG-WfiBFc
Mariagrazia Centanni

Discussion entries: 2





  

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pennello da cartellonista


Explanation:
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cynthiatesser
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1 day 3 hrs
Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7yG-WfiBFc

Reference information:
Ti consiglio di guardarti questo video su You Tube, che parla dei pennelli e di tutta l'attrezzatura che serve ad un 'signwriter' e fa vedere anche come si usano, anche se dura un quarto d'ora ! Logicamente, è opportuno avere anche una certa manualità, per poter usare bene questi pennelli ...
Non ho trovato nessun riferimento in italiano e nemmeno possiamo sapere quanto siano simili questi pennelli a quelli del 'sign-writer' della colonna di Traiano : sembra materiale adatto ad artisti, restauratori ed antiquari. E, a quanto pare, quello del sign-writer è un mestiere di consolidata tradizione inglese.
http://www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk/acatalog/Signwriting_Brush...
http://www.signpainting.co.uk/craft/brushes.htm;
http://www.stonehouses.co.uk/product_list.php?id=3;
http://www.premierbrush.co.uk/php/list_products.php?cid=4;
http://paintworks.biz/artmaterials/brushes_specialistbrushes...
http://www.pinstripinguk.com/lettering_brushes1.htm.


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Note added at 1 giorno3 ore (2013-10-26 19:54:17 GMT)
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Ci sono anche pennelli piatti, ma qual'è quello scoperto da Catich ???

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Note added at 1 giorno4 ore (2013-10-26 20:06:38 GMT)
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Credo che questo link su Father Catich, possa esserti utile :
http://artlegacyleague.blogspot.it/p/brush-romans.html

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Note added at 1 giorno4 ore (2013-10-26 20:10:04 GMT)
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E anche questo :
http://www.johnnealbooks.com/prod_detail_list/24


    Reference: http://www.cornelissen.com/brushes/lining-and-signwriting-br...
    Reference: http://www.handover.co.uk/Signwriting,_Brushes_tools_and_pai...
Mariagrazia Centanni
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