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craquelure (krăkl  r`), hairline surface cracking of paintings into characteristic patterns determined by age, climatic conditions, and the materials used in the work. Cracking was so common in works by 18th-century English painters that it became known as craquelure anglaise. Forgers and restorers often imitate craquelure to enhance the look of authenticity in their works. |
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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. 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. 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. |
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