Word: shellacing
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...during World War II, but Pelliccioli has a photograph of it and a vivid memory. First he took minute samplings of the surface where past restorers had painted on overlapping layers, then painstakingly scraped down to the original, finally swabbed over Leonardo's faded paint with a clear shellac fixative...
...original brilliance. It is too far gone for that. But Italy's experts think that the restoration job has brought the Last Supper closer to the original than it has been within the memory of living man. And what's more, says Restorer Pelliccioli, his special shellac skin ought to keep it that way as long as the wall stands...
Tenderly he disentangled the rotting kings & queens and went to work. He washed faces, removed maggots from straw, drilled thousands of tiny holes and injected shellac with a hypodermic needle into their crumbling substance. Cherishing every flake of paint, he faithfully copied its color...
...conducting; 6 sides LP). First released in the U.S. in 1938 in a 78-r.p.m. album, this is still the best performance of the Don on records; no one voice is brilliantly outstanding, but the temper of the ensemble more than makes up for that. The sound, good on shellac, is, if anything, improved...
...band has new put this Album on one LP record, and it sounds better then ever. The original 1946 version was on Shellac, it was re-pressed two years later on Vinylite; the new LP combines the performance of the former with the sparkle of the latter, all on one nice big convenient disk...