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‘Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance’ Review: Seeing Both Sides
In their naturalism and immediacy, Renaissance portraits communicate to us across ... In the crystal clarity of the oil technique and extreme detail of the portrait, it demonstrates the proximity ...
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Expert Rediscovers Painting by Renaissance Master Lavinia Fontana, One of the First Professional Female Artists
The artwork had been hiding in plain sight in the archives of a provincial museum in France, where it will eventually go on ...
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Titian’s Renaissance Masterpiece Hides an Artistic Secret, ‘Ecce Homo’ Reveals a Complete Portrait Beneath
Based on the X-ray visuals, experts recreated an oil painting of the man ... understanding of the artistic strategies ...
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Oil paint is a simple mixture of oil and pigment, but it's expensive
While the rise of oil paint is associated with the Renaissance, paintings using poppy-seed oil have been dated as far back as seventh-century Afghanistan. But there's one key reason this paint ...