07-11-2025, 10:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-11-2025, 10:24 PM by Bluetoes101.)
(07-11-2025, 05:39 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I believe there is evidence that the paint was applied after most of the "restoration"/retracing rounds. When the Painter ran over a figure outline with his brush, it often looks like the paint dissolved the ink and either push it aside or washed it off completely.
All the best, --stolfi
What I meant was that maybe the paint makes us have a different interpretation of what was meant in places. (maybe misleading us the viewer, rather than whoever did the ink)
For example if the person just decided to paint a dress red, the solid red (caused by crude paint) makes us think of a thick materials.
Or maybe a better example is blue blocks next to blocks with stars, one interpretation could be that the blue is the sky, another might be it is the sea.. or others, but really we can;t tell much but "blue" because of the crude nature of the application.
But yeah, I'd agree the paint looks like the final step in completing an image in the MS.


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