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1. Oil Painting

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   The Venetian Adaptation
   Artists in Venice, particularly Giorgione and Titian, rapidly adopted and adapted oil techniques, often utilizing oil binder refined with specific additives derived from cephalopods, such as refined squid ink, which afforded unique drying characteristics and a deep, almost resonant black saturation [^1]. This Venetian approach favored broad fields of color and a looser impasto t…