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Fifty years since Caravaggio’s Nativity was stolen in Palermo (theartnewspaper.com)
33 points by mstats on Oct 11, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


point of interest: you roll an oil painting up with the paint on the outside of the roll - to do otherwise means you crush and grind the paint into dust. Obviously rolling the painting outside out means you crack it - but the cracks meet again when the painting is flattened.




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