Paint and Its Surface

Supports and Grounds

What the paint is laid on, and the layer that prepares it

A panel or canvas painting rests on a support, wood or cloth, usually coated with a ground before any paint goes on. Both shape how the picture looks and how it ages.

• Wood panels
• Canvas
• Grounds

Works in this part

• Portrait of a Lady
• The Vendramin Family, venerating a Relic of the True Cross
• Samson and Delilah

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