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A liar by trade, paid to make flat surfaces lie convincingly about depth.
means A person who applies paint, whether creating pictures as an artist or coating walls and surfaces as a tradesperson.
from From Old French 'peintor,' from Latin 'pictor' (a painter), which comes from 'pingere,' to paint or embroider. That same root quietly fans out into 'picture,' 'pigment,' and 'depict' — all descendants of the act of putting color onto something. There's also a separate, unrelated 'painter' meaning a rope used to tie up a boat; that one is of murkier origin, possibly from Old French 'pentoir,' a hanging cord, and has nothing to do with paint at all.
- Lead poison
- Caravaggio and Goya may have been mad from paint
- Tiny museum
- Vermeer left only 34 known paintings
- Cave originals
- Painters worked walls 40,000 years before canvas
- Blue gold
- Ultramarine once cost more than gold by weight
- Spit polish
- Restorers clean masterpieces with saliva and cotton swabs
leonardo da vinci — renaissance master who painted mona lisa (1503-1519) and the last supper (1495-1498)
vincent van gogh — dutch post-impressionist who created starry night (1889) and sunflowers series
pablo picasso — spanish cubist who painted guernica (1937) and les demoiselles d'avignon (1907)
michelangelo buonarroti — italian renaissance artist who painted sistine chapel ceiling (1508-1512)