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A liar by trade, paid to make flat surfaces lie convincingly about depth.
Lead poisonCaravaggio and Goya may have been mad from paint
Tiny museumVermeer left only 34 known paintings
Cave originalsPainters worked walls 40,000 years before canvas
Blue goldUltramarine once cost more than gold by weight
Spit polishRestorers clean masterpieces with saliva and cotton swabs