What was used to make art in Medieval Erope?



Art made on ivory.



Most artists for the middle ages preferred the ivory from elephant’s tusks. Some tusks were from India. These tusks were the less preferred because they were not treated as well. There are other tusks from Africa, and these tusks were more preferred to use by artists. Though they like this they often had to find a substitution to it, they had to use walrus tusks or deer antlers. They would use these for the paper because they would spread out easier, they could sometimes also use them for sharp pointier tips to wright with.

You could always have problems or different solutions with this kind of paper. Sometime exploiting the natural translucence and whiteness of a material added gliding or polychrome.  Polychrome is the term used to describe multiple colors or so on a painting. This was also called the practice of architectural elements. Also a large amount of the art with ivory was made of sculptures. There was nothing wrong with natural translucence it just added good architecture to their painting and sculptures.