| I read about craquelure several years ago and was immediately fascinated by both its scientific and metaphorical potential. |
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| He obtains chipped and plastery-looking surfaces with a dense craquelure. |
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| Minute details of texture, brushstrokes, and craquelure must also be simulated. |
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| For one thing, although the painting was webbed with centuries of craquelure, the sailor's face was unblemished. |
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| The internal stresses thus created can cause cupping and craquelure over time. |
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| It's called craquelure and, she assures us, it is simple to apply and guaranteed to cover the whole surface in fine cracks. |
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| With a depth resolution down to one-hundredth-of-a-millimetre the NRC-IIT scan was able to provide the most detailed analysis to date of the paintings craquelure, the network of surface cracks. |
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| Frid presses her aluminum foil over lengths of string, giving her sky a striation that becomes a kind of meandering craquelure. |
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| A fine craquelure effect further underscores the antique nature of the design. |
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| From an aperture on the work's top, a band of a different white, marked by a scratchy, textured craquelure, runs down toward the base like drool. |
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| In the floor installation River, 2000, a thick layer of dove gray local clay is splintering into an overall craquelure as it slowly hardens. |
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| In a nearby painting two rectangles and a triangle meet below another field of blue, here broken up by a craquelure of black lines and horizontal dashes of white. |
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| Some of them have as much craquelure as something from the 15th century. |
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