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  2. Encaustic painting - Wikipedia

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    Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, is a form of painting that involves a heated wax medium to which colored pigments have been added. The molten mix is applied to a surface—usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are sometimes used. The simplest encaustic medium could be made by adding pigments to wax, though ...

  3. Fayum mummy portraits - Wikipedia

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    Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. The Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to ...

  4. Ana Maria de Martinez - Wikipedia

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    Ana Maria de Martinez. Ana María de Martínez (nee Avilez) (May 28, 1937 - December 16, 2012) [1] was a Salvadorian artist. She is best known for creating acrylic paintings on canvas. Martinez was a self-taught painter, and her career expanded to almost four decades.

  5. Encaustic tile - Wikipedia

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    Encaustic tile. Encaustic or inlaid tiles are ceramic tiles in which the pattern or figure on the surface is not a product of the glaze but of different colors of clay. They are usually of two colours but a tile may be composed of as many as six. The pattern appears inlaid into the body of the tile, so that the design remains as the tile is ...

  6. Encaustic - Wikipedia

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    Encaustic. Look up encaustic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Encaustic may refer to: Encaustic painting, using a wax medium, or a different technique in English pottery. Encaustic tile, with inlaid clay to form polychrome patterns. Category: Disambiguation pages.

  7. Conservation and restoration of frescos - Wikipedia

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    Using a removal tool, a sort of awl, the painting and the intonachino attached to the cloth and glue covering are then detached, from the bottom up. The back of the fresco is thinned to remove excess lime and reconstructed with a permanent backing made from two thin cotton cloths, called velatini, and a heavier cloth with a layer of glue.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Pointillism - Wikipedia

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    Pointillism. Pointillism (/ ˈpwæ̃tɪlɪzəm /, also US: / ˈpwɑːn - ˌ ˈpɔɪn -/) [1] is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism.

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