Textual Complexity vs. Visual Simplicity

[Jorge_Stolfi]

there is absolutely no need to invent a separate "heavy" painter when everything can be explained by one bad painter attempting to match different techniques.

I am still unsure about how many different painters there were, but I agree that the same painter could and did apply both the solid paint like the leaves and corollas of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and and the scraggy paint on the chalices.  The latter seems to have been applied with a mostly dry or worn-out brush, or some improvised instrument like a chewed-on stick. 

In fact, in many places even the solid paint seems to have been applied with a quill pen, with dozens of overlapping strokes,  rather than with a brush.

All the best, --jorge

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Depending on what tool was used to apply the paint, I would call this a very delicate job.

As I noted in the other posts, in most places the "solid" paint was actually applied with a quill, with dozens of overlapping strokes.  That red paint between the circles is just one example.