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II. IF we compare the pictures of the Italian and Dutch schools of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, with those of the French and English schools of the last hundred years, we are struck by the great difference in the nature of their diseases. We may divide those diseases into constitutional ones—that is to say, such as are based on the method and the material used for painting, and into those produced by external influences.
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The Deterioration of Oil Paintings 1 . Nature 17, 515–517 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017515a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/017515a0