I have no idea why the pattern designer thought only the letters a-e-g-i-s-v were needed is it supposed to spell 'visage' and if so, why? and I don't know why there's some kind of craquelure behind those letters, but I don't care. From Wordnik.com. [Gorgeous Ugly Fabric - A Dress A Day] Reference
Fine lines, like the craquelure of an old painting, abreast of us, advancing, everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Courts of Chaos]
The NRC scanning technique provided detailed analysis of the painting's craquelure, the network of surface cracks. From Wordnik.com. [MILLION DOLLAR SMILE] Reference
In Google Earth, you can get close enough to examine a painter's brushstrokes or the craquelure on the varnish of a painting. From Wordnik.com. [January 2009] Reference
Antique dealers dress a falsely veneered surface by varnish, then by beeswax which is given a microscopic craquelure by rapid drying. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
The truck jerked, bounced, slowed, and began to slew sideways as the craquelure of failing ice spread out from them in all directions. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
BTW, on a different note, the craquelure you so often see in Parrish's work is created by the intervening layers of oil and varnish pulling apart. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak Blues] Reference
The plates had aged with a fine craquelure inside the porcelain, and on the wall just above their heads was a pigeon box for the napkins of regular guests long since departed. From Wordnik.com. [Babylon Nights] Reference
"What our results show, and this corroborates the other studies, is that the paint layer itself, despite all its craquelure, is very well bonded to the poplar substrate," Taylor said. From Wordnik.com. [MILLION DOLLAR SMILE] Reference
Close examination of the craquelure — the fine pattern of cracks formed on old paintings — showed the paint layers were still firmly attached to the poplar wood panel on which Leonardo created his masterpiece. From Wordnik.com. [DaVinci’s Mona Lisa was a New Mother, Says Experts | Impact Lab] Reference
These spectacular images of its works, which are only available on Google Earth, will allow scholars and art lovers to appreciate from close up the most minute details and motifs represented, the lines and brushstrokes of each artist, the under-drawing, craquelure of the varnish and many other aspects difficult to see at first hand. From Wordnik.com. [Museo del Prado and Google Present Fourteen Masterpieces] Reference
The simple glass bottle with the craquelure style top matches the classic reserve of the scent. From Wordnik.com. [Luxist] Reference
A little bit of craquelure is absolutely acceptable and gives you a feeling of comfort that it's original. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
The craquelure that laughs at illusions of timelessness webs the surface of everything, a conservator's nightmare. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
Impressive, too, are the larger paintings that layer streaks, splatter, and a kind of artificial craquelure on top of. From Wordnik.com. [Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories] Reference
Mona Lisa, accurate to the last coat of darkened varnish and the highly distinctive pattern of craquelure - the cracks that have appeared on the surface of the paint over time - you can hardly go around advertising the fact; so you store it in your garage and look at it every once in a while. From Wordnik.com. [The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage] Reference
Temple Cone, "Spring Covenant": "When the grackle soul rends its metal / Read-a-leak, read-a-leak / / And the bleb of sun casts chill / Through the craquelure of hickory,". From Wordnik.com. [WhimsyLand] Reference
It was the robot, the one he'd given her, the pretty thing with the Dutch Master craquelure up its tuna-can skirts. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
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