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craquelure

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craquelure

Network of fine cracks on a painting's surface that are due to age. In tempera paintings the cracks are barely visible, whereas in oil paintings they can be very distinctive. Craquelure is an authentic sign of age and, where artificially induced in forged works of art, is usually detectable.

Providing the cracks are not so pronounced as to disfigure the painting, they are generally left alone by restorers.
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81 Even accidents of process can be subsumed into the aesthetic of ornament, for example craquelure in ceramics, and the patch repairs on Kuba cloths.
Ornament on trial. (Royal Academy Forum) by Phillips, Tom / The Architectural Review
In a nearby painting two rectangles and a triangle meet below another field of blue, here broken up by a craquelure of black lines and horizontal dashes of white.
Laura Newman. (Reviews) by Schwendener, Martha / Artforum International
The author stresses the difficulty posed by the proportions of oil to the other ingredients which left its impact on Leonardo's early paintings, all of which are marred by the subsequent wrinkling of the paint surface that led to surface craquelure.
Leonardo da Vinci: Origins of a Genius by WOODS-MARSDEN, JOANNA / Renaissance Quarterly
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