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Description: Self-Portrait
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Description: Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting
Artemisia was an artist who moved from humble beginnings as the daughter of a moderately successful Roman painter to becoming an active (if unlikely) participant in the refined oral, intellectual, and musical culture of her day—whether in the Florentine court, the fringes of the papal curia in Rome, the...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.125-160
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00192.006
Description: Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies
Technical examination of the paint layer can confirm a work’s age or authenticity and add to knowledge of the painting’s execution and the artist’s intended effects. Examination can address either the materials or the ways they were handled—the techniques. Study of paint materials offers information that is specific but of limited interpretive use to the art historian. Pigment identification can deny (but rarely confirm) a paintings age, or can identify areas of repaint. Precise identification …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.101-210
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00110.006

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