However, the hands of the figures are not characteristic of Cranach, and the craquelure evident in the paintings is not the result of aging but has been artificially produced.
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The Institute also found that modern paints had been used in the restoration and that the restorer had made new underdrawings and used various techniques to recreate the craquelure of the painting.
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Upstairs, in the Guillotine Room, the walls are being lined with murals of mobs battling during the French Revolution; the canvas has been aged and given a patina of craquelure.
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"' Craquelure "'(, ) is the fine pattern of dense " cracking " formed on the surface of materials, either as part of the process of ageing or of their original formation or production.
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Well, you may think I'm crazy, but all I'm admitting to is a little craquelure, that lovely word which describes the fine lines that can appear on the varnish of an antique painting or on the surface of delicate old china.
