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  2. Soldier at a Game of Chess - Wikipedia

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    Soldier at a Game of Chess, initialed "JM" and signed "JMetzinger" (lower right), is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 81.3 x 61 cm (32 x 24 in.).The vertical composition is painted in a geometrically advanced Cubist style, representing a solitary French soldier playing a game of chess.

  3. Oil painting - Wikipedia

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    Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the subject onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint. Oil paint is usually mixed with linseed oil, artist grade mineral spirits, or other solvents to make the paint thinner, faster or slower drying. (Because the solvents thin the oil in the paint, they can also be ...

  4. Transfer of panel paintings - Wikipedia

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    The ground of the painting was then removed by solvents or scraping, until nothing remained but a thin skin of colour, pasted over with paper and held together by the muslin. A prepared canvas was then attached to the back of the paint layer, using the same method as was used for lining pictures. When the glue had dried, the paper and muslin ...

  5. Lining of paintings - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Ground (art) - Wikipedia

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    An example of a painting done on commercially-prepared canvas is Willem de Kooning's 1955 abstract expressionist oil painting, Woman-Ochre. [9] In "Layer by Layer: Studying Woman-Ochre," the J. Paul Getty Museum describes the painting surface, noting that an unprimed selvedge on the canvas "is a clue that this canvas was prepared in a factory ...

  7. Conservation and restoration of paintings - Wikipedia

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    Oil paint is a medium made up of pigments and a drying oil binding agent. Various other ingredients can be mixed in to condition the paint in several ways and modify its various properties and drying. [1] Oil paintings are painted on various surface support types. Oil on canvas, oil on board, and oil on metal are only some examples of oil ...

  8. The Game of Chess (Sofonisba Anguissola) - Wikipedia

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    Giorgio Vasari, visiting Cremona, was a guest in the house of Amilcare Anguissola and there admired paintings by Amilcare's daughters.About The Game of Chess he wrote, "I have seen this year in Cremona, in the house of her father a painting made with much diligence, the depiction of his three daughters, in the act of playing chess, and with them an old housemaid, done with such diligence and ...

  9. Support (art) - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known use of fabrics as a painting support dates back to the Dynasty XII in Egypt (2000 BC).The continuous use can be traced in both Europe and Asia. In Medieval Europe fabrics was overtaken by the wood panels for church use; Renaissance, with its wider spread of paintings, saw wide use of canvas, occasionally glued to the wood, a practice that originated in the Ancient Egypt, but ...

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