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P.S. A Trick
If you'd like to see how old paintings looked when they were created, before their oil and varnish yellowed, try looking at them through a light blue filter (such as an 80A photographic filter, used on cameras with standard daylight film when taking pictures under incandescent lights).
I tried it with my book of Rembrandts and voila! The fleshtones became just that much fleshier!
But poor old Mona Lisa: She's so cracked and yellowed now that even that trick didn't work for me -- his contemporaries said that Da Vinci painted her fleshtones so realistically that it looked like you could just reach out and touch her.
Color -- the artist's best friend and worst enemy.
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