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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overclean .
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Examples
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The restorers themselves acknowledged the difficult issues posed by this formerly overcleaned painting, in the conservation information posted on the Philadelphia Museum's "Gross Clinic" website:
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The restorers themselves acknowledged the difficult issues posed by this formerly overcleaned painting, in the conservation information posted on the Philadelphia Museum's "Gross Clinic" website:
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That's why my first guess was that it was overcleaned.
Daybreak Blues James Gurney 2009
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Like Mr. Honour, who is one of the most gifted writers on art active these days, I too have looked many times at the Ilaria, often in the company of marble sculptors, both before and after the treatment, and I see what he fails to see: an overcleaned and overpolished fifteenth-century statue, one that did not need any treatment in the first place.
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Rossamünd looked to the overcleaned floorboards and waited.
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She often finds paintings that have been overcleaned and stripped of details the artists intended to be part of a painting.
Stories: Local News 2010
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The thrill of this book lies, however, in illustrations that are of a size and quality that allow us to discern something of the condition of Caravaggio's paintings - overcleaned, undercleaned, ironed flat in the heat of relining, worn thin, distressed and cracked, and yet, in spite of this, quite wonderful.
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