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...zquez's Las Meninas, El Greco's Nobleman with Hand on His Chest, Durer's Self-Portrait and Fra Angelico's Annunciation, have been reproduced in a resolution so fine - 14,000 megapixels - that not only individual brushstrokes but even the seams in the canvas and cracks in the varnish are visible. (Read a TIME story on the Prado...
...renewed colors do more than add vibrancy; they help Goya tell his story. Released from decades of yellowed varnish, a tiny white spot in The Second of May draws the gaze to a horse's muzzle, and from there, up to the animal's penetrating eyes, which stare at the viewer in terrified accusation, as if to say, "Look at what you've done." Bloodspecked bodies crumpled at the bottom of each painting now form a single visual line and provide a graphic reminder that the French massacre of "innocent" militiamen occurred only after the Spanish had slaughtered their share...
...upcoming results. “There was this image of Sundquist as a UC god,” Roy T. Willey IV ’09 said as he mused over the possibility that he might unseat the UC insider. “We definitely took some of the varnish off him as this perfect candidate.” As more and more supporters filtered in, one of them brought the news that Sundquist had won the election. And a good five minutes before the official call from the election commission, Willey had confirmed the results by checking The Crimson?...
Strip away the varnish that President Bush will apply when he addresses the nation Thursday night, and the truth about Iraq is grim. Four and a half years after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, a war that has cost America thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars is nowhere near a satisfactory conclusion...
...treasure. The book's seven essays give due credit to other artists who embellished the Renaissance chapel of Pope Sixtus IV, including Botticelli and Raphael. But the focus is on Michelangelo, whose preference for bright colors is coming to light as restorers clean centuries of candle soot, grime and varnish from his frescoes. Only the lunettes above the chapel windows are finished so far, but their dazzling colors, photographed by Takashi Okamura, suggest the hue of things to come...