Under the Light: Cupid and Psyche

Draw the handle slowly down the canvas. The painting yields its secrets one at a time — the architecture of its light, the bones of its drawing, the true colour beneath the varnish — until it loosens into the very pigment it was built from, then settles back into stillness.

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Artwork Ref D3JB64 - A closer looking
Bringing the painting to the light…
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