The Charles H. Cecil Studios is a private
atelier
An atelier () is the private workshop or studio of a professional artist in the fine or decorative arts or an architect, where a principal master and a number of assistants, students, and apprentices can work together producing fine art or v ...
in
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...
, Italy. It is run by American painter and art historian Charles H. Cecil, who was trained by
R. H. Ives Gammell
Robert Hale Ives Gammell (1893 – 1981) was an American artist best known for his sequence of paintings based on Francis Thompson's poem " The Hound of Heaven". Gammell painted symbolic images that reflected his study of literature, mythol ...
. It offers training in classical techniques of drawing and oil painting. Charles H. Cecil Studios occupies the most historic Florentine atelier still in active use.
The curriculum stems directly from the leading ateliers of nineteenth-century Paris. Fundamental to the teaching is the practice of drawing and painting from life. Another important practice is the sight-size technique whereby subject and image are depicted to scale as seen from a given distance.
The studio accepts only a limited number of pupils each year. Cecil personally supervises the progress of their work and is assisted by advanced students and colleagues who return at regular intervals.
References
External links
Official Homepage of the Charles H. Cecil Studios'Art Classes in Florence'
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'', March 2006.
''Return to Florence''
- an independent documentary about this atelier
A former student and professional painter's website glossary information about artist and atelier teacher Charles Harkless Cecil
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Art schools in Italy
Figurative art