Piero da Cosimo's fingerprints

June 7 2022

Video: National Gallery

Here's another nice video from the National Gallery's head of conservation, Larry Keith. He tells us about some conservation treatment on Piero da Cosimo's Satyr Mourning a Nymph, and reveals how the artist applied most of the blue sky with his fingers, leaving prints.

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