Monthly Archives: November 2015

Blog: Pouncing and relief models

Pouncing is an artist’s technique that was also used to create relief models. I was watching “The Agony and the Ecstasy” (1965, book by Irving Stone) and suddenly realized that they were showing “pouncing” that I described in my recent book. In the movie (stills captured from TV below) you see Michelangelo and his crew tracing…