granitura

14:09 Apr 4, 2018 

jewellery engraving techniques. Anyway, thanks very much for your help Phil.

14:07 Apr 4, 2018 

But this is not about engraving. It's a technique taken from gold and silverwork and used in painting, and I don't think you should try to find an English equivalent. Anyway, up to you!

13:56 Apr 4, 2018 

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glass goblet; diamond-point engravingGlass goblet with diamond-point stipple engraving, signed “F. Greenwood fecit 1764,” from Holland; in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. Height 28 cm. Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg ...
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Stipple engraving is a technique used to create tone in an intaglio print by distributing a pattern of dots of various sizes and densities across the image. The pattern is created on the printing plate either in engraving by gouging out the dots with a burin, or through an etching process. Stippling was used as an adjunct to ...

13:27 Apr 4, 2018 

I don't disagree with stippling, but I think most people would associate that with the brush. The end effect is stippled, but it's achieved in a particular way. That's why I think it's better to leave it in Italian.
To be clear, this is about a painting, not metalwork or sculpture.

13:19 Apr 4, 2018 

there in the text I posted and might be a good alternative. Thanks very much indeed!

13:16 Apr 4, 2018 

See here; it's a .pdf, but you should find it online:
AV71_DeMarchi La ricezione dell'oro.pdf - FloRe
27 Vedi supra nota 21. Le tre tipologie di lavorazione dell’oro elencate sono le principali categorizzate anche da Skaug (Punch marks…, cit., I, pp. 62-66) e altri al suo seguito, con i lemmi “indentation” (incisione lineare a mano libera, in tedesco “Ritzung”), “stippling” (granitura puntiforme, in tedesco “Punktierung”) e “punching” (punzonatura, in tedesco “Punzierung”). Vedi pure J. Polzer, A question of method: quantitative aspects of art historical analysis in the classification of early Trecento Italian painting based on ornamental practice, “Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz”, XLIX, 2005, pp. 33-100, in particolare p. 34, e B. Eclercy, Nimbendekor…, cit., pp. 58-80.

13:11 Apr 4, 2018 

Even trying pearling on its own it always seems to be a border.

13:06 Apr 4, 2018 

but I think Phil has a point, and I'd go with his suggestion. Here http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/coll... you can see it's a border.

13:06 Apr 4, 2018 

I can't find it convincingly anywhere as a term.

13:04 Apr 4, 2018 

It's not a border, though. I'd leave it in Italian, perhaps followed by "graining" in brackets, since it's explained in such detail.

12:56 Apr 4, 2018 

Yes perhaps you're right as this seems to correspond:
Portrait medals of Italian artists of the Renaissance
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... as the Italians called the pearled border, consisting of rather large widely spaced “ pearls,” on both sides. Some seven or eight of the medals of the Florentine family mentioned above have a border treated in exatfitly the same way. The medal ofPrimaticcio is inscribed FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO P-B(Pitrare Balagmre). Why don't you put it in as answer?

12:50 Apr 4, 2018 

Could it be something like this?
Pearled border or granitura:
MEDALLIC TECHNIQUE 27
The surfaces having been carefully polished, the positions of the
pearled border or granitura and of the inscription were marked on
them with compasses. The medallist could then cut with a grave
direct into the metal, guiding himself by his models. The letters
were also cut with gravers or burins. Some medallists used the gem-
cutter's wheel for engraving the dies. Cellini himself, however, for
his medals of Clement VII, employed puncheons or madri, 1 as for
his coins. That is to say, for the portrait-head, and for various
details, Cellini carved steel punches in relief ; these were driven into
the die, which had been softened in the fire, and left impressions in
reverse. Similarly he had an alphabet of punches for the inscrip-
tions, and a punch with dots or pearls to make the pearled border
or granitura.
https://books.google.nl/books?id=UNAMAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27&lpg=PA...