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The oldest known art in Brazil is the cave paintings in Serra da Capivara National Park in the state of Piauí, [1] dating back to c. 13,000 BC. More recent examples have been found in Minas Gerais and Goiás, showing geometric patterns and animal forms.
The conservation and restoration of paintings is carried out by professional painting conservators. Paintings cover a wide range of various mediums, materials, and their supports (i.e. the painted surface made from fabric, paper, wood panel, fabricated board, or other).
Lining of paintings. The lining of paintings is a process of conservation science and art restoration used to strengthen, flatten or consolidate oil or tempera paintings on canvas by attaching a new support to the back of the existing one. The process is sometimes referred to as relining.
Sebastiano del Piombo 's The Raising of Lazarus was transferred from panel to canvas in 1771. [1] The practice of conserving an unstable painting on panel by transferring it from its original decayed, worm-eaten, cracked, or distorted wood support to canvas or a new panel has been practised since the 18th century.
The painting was later sold at Sotheby's for $13.1 million. [212] Between 2007 and 2012, the price of Basquiat's work continued to steadily increase up to $16.3 million. [213] [214] [215] The sale of Untitled (1981) for $20.1 million in 2012 elevated his market to a new stratosphere. [216] Soon other works in his oeuvre outpaced that record.
This attribution was made by Suida in 1929. Other art historians such as Shearman and Morelli attribute the work to Verrocchio. [2] Daniel Arasse discusses this painting as a youthful work by Leonardo in his monograph of 1997. [67] Tobias and the Angel † c. 1473 [68] Egg tempera on poplar 83.6 cm × 66 cm 32.9 in × 26.0 in
224 cm × 184 cm (88 in × 72 in) Location. Roger-Quilliot Art Museum, Clermont-Ferrand. The Acrobats (or The Wounded Child) is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1874 by French artist Gustave Doré. It represents a family of acrobats, who work in a circus, struck by a tragedy: their son, mortally wounded in the head, lies in the arms of his ...
Indigenous American visual arts include portable arts, such as painting, basketry, textiles, or photography, as well as monumental works, such as architecture, land art, public sculpture, or murals. Some Indigenous art forms coincide with Western art forms; however, some, such as porcupine quillwork or birchbark biting are unique to the Americas.