Word: pentimenti
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...version, wears sandals and leggings in Getty's. But even this, said Held, proves its authenticity, for in a painting that is admittedly a copy of the Rubens Diana, at the Picture Gallery in Kassel, Germany, the huntress wears leggings and sandals. Finally. Held detected several pentimenti. or ridges of paint that reveal a painted-over design, on the Getty canvas. These, he said, are "a sign of spontaneous execution characteristic of an original version, while a neat finish that does not betray the trial and error of creation is more typical of a copy or studio version...
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