Word: gesso
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...genuineness of paintings more than 100 years old, or for estimating in some cases the evidence of authorship on more tangible grounds than style and feeling. This development involves the detection of repaint. . . Also a new method or studying the materials used by the artist, including woods, canvasses, gesso, and other rounds, pigment--both old and new--and the various methods of manipulating these materials...