In Reply to: GWPE: exactly. A nice, light souffle but one is posted by tinear on June 17, 2005 at 07:02:26:
is a very contraversial subject, and shall forever remain such. I remember all the heated debates before the Chapel was cleaned, but given the nature of dirt on top that was apparently a right desicion.Oil paintings are typicall protected by layer of varnish, and it becomes dark and opaque with age, so cleaning is normal practice. However, most artwork in good museums you see today would not have old varnish - universally they would have been cleaned before. So I suspect both the book reproductions and the film shot were taken from the same original.
The problem with that last image on DVD was not its darkness or even shifted colors, there was also a visible loss of resolution... you know, when an area insted of having several gradation of color becomes one solid blotch.
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- Artwork cleaning... - Victor Khomenko 07:15:46 06/17/05 (0)