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Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice

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Plate 30. Cross section from Baptism,<br />

near an edge: layer 1 (at the bottom), intermediate<br />

white layer, here thicker; layer<br />

2, pink layer with madderlike particles;<br />

layer 3 (on top), white with natural ultramarine.<br />

Photograph by]. R. J. van Asperen<br />

de Boer.<br />

Plate 31. Paint cross section, light green<br />

Jo liage, upper part oj central trees. Workshop<br />

oj Jan Bruegel, Noah's Ark. Layers<br />

Jrom bottom: (1) chalk ground; (2) imprimatura:<br />

red <strong>and</strong> black in a translucent medium;<br />

(3) sky: white lead, pale smalt,<br />

black; (4) Joliage underpaint: azurite,<br />

earth, white lead, black. Magnifrcation on<br />

35 mmfilm: X64.<br />

Plate 32. Paint cross section (dark sky at<br />

upper edge) from Esaias van de Velde's<br />

Winter L<strong>and</strong>scape. Layers Jrom bottom:<br />

(1) ground: chalk with white lead, earth,<br />

<strong>and</strong> black; (2) sky: white lead, smalt, <strong>and</strong><br />

earth black; (3) darker sky: smalt <strong>and</strong><br />

white lead; (4) overpaint. Magnifrcation<br />

on 35 mm film: X70.

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