Word: overpainting
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Actually, few of the 2,000-odd paintings that are recognized Rubenses were totally done by his hand. He ran a well-organized factory with pupils and assistants who blocked out figures and filled in landscapes based on his sketches. Then Rubens would overpaint here and there, lending his master touch...
...somewhat different painting. It had apparently left Verrocchio's studio with the kneeling Madonna unfinished. About 40 years later, judging by the style, a minor painter completed it. Examination showed that beneath the visible Madonna was the brush drawing of Verrocchio. The overpaint was removed, revealing Verrocchio's original drawing on white gesso...
...Metropolitan Museum's great Havemeyer Collection (TIME, March 24). It had been labeled "School of Titian," but Director Valentiner, observing the sensitively rendered fingers of the Doge's hand upon his sword hilt, gambled $400 and had an expert scrape off layers of 30-year-old overpaint. In his judgment that this was a real work of Titian he was soon joined by no less a master of the genuine picture market than Sir Joseph Duveen...
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