There was not a trace of figurative painting or sculpture among the artworks, which is not a surprise considering that such work is thought of as completely outdated, totally out of fashion, and mostly ignored by art schools.
As in more ancient construction, I have never remarked in the buildings of the Bagratid era any trace of painting.
There is room for confusion in these categories, for the earliest work, a Windsor chair made for a child around 1800, is plain enough and bears only a few traces of paint.
From the first search of the first crime scene two decades ago, investigators have saved every fiber, hair and trace of paint they have collected.
For me, there needs to be an epiphany, a trace of how the imagery conveyed through paint was discovered and experienced by the artist.
One of the masterpieces of the late Renaissance artist most of us know as Caravaggio is "The Death of the Virgin," in which the mother of Jesus is pictured without a trace of the ethereality of standard religious painting.
On the other end is the nudist, someone completely of the body who paints without a trace of inhibition, who never decides what to put on the canvas in advance but just instinctually slathers it on with a huge brush or spatula, perhaps even while sipping a glass of wine with the other hand, all while naked.
These figures, presumed to have had a ceremonial use, retain traces of paint that once highlighted their sculptural form.
High resolution photographs allow researchers to view scratches, cracks and traces of paint at a high magnification.
At that moment, resting in the dirt near Mr. Silver's foot, was a shard of ancient pottery with traces of paint still on it.
