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- noun Plural form of
underdrawing .
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Examples
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Infrared reflectography can reveal the sketches - called underdrawings - and changes that a painter makes in the course of composing a work.
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Infrared reflectography can reveal the sketches - called underdrawings - and changes that a painter makes in the course of composing a work.
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They found the "underdrawings", which had been erased by the artists, with new techniques developed for drug detection and forensics.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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They found the "underdrawings", which had been erased by the artists, with new techniques developed for drug detection and forensics.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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They found the "underdrawings", which had been erased by the artists, with new techniques developed for drug detection and forensics.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The mystery deepened in 2005, when x-ray and infrared photography revealed not one, but two, very different underdrawings.
Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks restored to original purity 2010
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We see him mapping out his designs with underdrawings on plaster and then painting them swiftly - occasionally making changes - with mineral pigments.
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Barry, who did the technical analysis on the paintings, said that looking at the underdrawings helped them learn how two workshops came together to work on a piece, how work was divided, and what the differences and similarities were among the artists.
New findings on 15th century panels from the altar for the cathedral at Ciudad Rodrigo 2008
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The exhibit gives viewers a peek into the past with illuminated copies of the underdrawings, which are the sketches the artists made of the scene before painting them.
New findings on 15th century panels from the altar for the cathedral at Ciudad Rodrigo 2008
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Those underdrawings, revealed with the help of an infrared camera, have given scholars some insight into the practices of artists' workshops at the time.
New findings on 15th century panels from the altar for the cathedral at Ciudad Rodrigo 2008
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