[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Here is what my Superior Pareidolia says about the nymph with the Habsburg crown:

   

This clip covers the nymphs at ~00:30 and ~01:00 in the outer band of f72v1.

Only a few bits of the original (Rt0) traces survive, like (A,B,C). Most of the text and figure outlines was retraced in the first restoration round (Rt1). There may have been a second partial retracing round Rt2, but it is not clearly distinguished Rt1, since the ink color and weight look about the same. However the double tracings in (K,L) seems to be examples of Rt2 over Rt1. On this clip, the third Retracer (Rt3) retouched or added his favorite elements (R,S,T,U,V) and added the crown (Z).


And here is an approximation of what I think those two nymphs looked like at some point after Rt1 but before Rt3:

   

I suspect that one of the Retracers -- probably Rt2 or Rt3 -- also messed up the faces of these and other nymphs, by extending the original modest nose down, making the original mouth into the base of the nose,  and adding a new mouth, possibly lowering the chin.  On the first nymph I tried to undo this hypothetical transformation, but left it on the second nymph.

All the best, --stolfi

PS. Also I am still unsure about the date of the light yellow translucent color.  Its distribution and the way it is applied suggest that it was not at the same time as the other color paints.  But there are a few places where it seems that the Painter (which I think worked well after the last Retracer) transitioned from yellow to green without properly cleaning his "brush".  But perhaps this case was a different yellow paint...