“Bindings and bonds; cracks and fissures,
“Bindings and bonds; cracks and fissures,All must be carefully made and guarded against”
All must be carefully made and guarded against”At the front of the secret studio, the women moved two of the smaller tables together, a difficult task in their long skirts and the layers beneath. They laughed at their own awkwardness as the hard oak squawked resistance, legs dragging across uneven stone.
Viviana and Mattea, Fiammetta and Natasia spread their sketches of the painting across the tables. The anonymously painted but infamously known Feast of Herod lay across the now wide and accommodating surface.
Feast of HerodFour different versions of the same painting, the same subject, were displayed before them. Some emphasized capturing the dimension of
