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Definition of Overcleaning
1. overclean [v] - See also: overclean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcleaning
Literary usage of Overcleaning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"The reasonable rule, then, would appear to be to clean pictures that really need
it, but to avoid overcleaning with the most scrupulous care. ..."
2. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"... too, is introduced the same motif, although ruinous overcleaning has quite
destroyed the soft beauty of the tender breast the Mother's fingers indent, ..."
3. A History of Painting in Italy, Umbria, Florence and Siena, from the Second by Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1903)
"If the panels at Bologna have suffered from overcleaning, it may not be quite
just to say what may otherwise be correct, that the altar- piece was ..."
4. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the by Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1907)
"It is an early work, that was once fine, but has suffered by overcleaning.
In types and colouring it resembles the picture at Waddesdon (308). ..."
5. Sienese Renaissance Tomb Monuments by Robert Munman (1993)
"As I have not been able to examine the tomb in the original since this procedure,
I cannot comment on the alleged overcleaning, though there appears to be ..."
6. Italian Painters: Critical Studies of Their Works by GIOVANNI. MORELLI (1907)
"It is an admirable work, and, with the exception of some injuries, due to
overcleaning, is well preserved. It represents the Madonna, attended by two angels ..."
7. Handbook of Painting: German, Fleming, and Dutch Schools by Franz Kugler, Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Joseph Archer Crowe (1898)
"The clear and somewhat crude general effect is partly attributable to overcleaning.
A few better preserved portions, such as the Moses, and the two male ..."
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