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edhopper

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13. Painters will scrape off parts as the work

Reply to KingCharlemagne (Reply #10)

Fri Dec 11, 2015, 12:25 PM

Dec 2015

or painting over areas they want to change.

Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa over 14 years, so that there were layers under layers is not surprising.

The connotation here that there was a finished and different painting underneath is misleading.

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