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Could easily have been sprayed on. This is a common technique done with a mouth tube in older times, a bulb sprayer later and an air brush most recently.
by ted_dunning 2y ago
Could easily have been sprayed on.
This is a common technique done with a mouth tube in older times, a bulb sprayer later and an air brush most recently.
- svieira 2y agoThere is nothing on the fibers that is visible under a high powered microscope. Paint (even spray-paint) is quite visibly distinct from the fiber it covers.
- tsimionescu 2y agoWhen it is relatively fresh, or well protected. Who know what is left after 600 years of handling and sunlight exposure and being saved from a fire.
- svieira 2y agoWe have known paintings from the time period - the paint is still visible under a microscope.
- tsimionescu 2y agoYes, because those paintings were preserved as paintings. And they were not designed in the first place to look like something other than a painting.