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Show Secret of Painting on Real Spider Webs Lost Among the most beautiful and unusual displays of artistry are spider-web paintings paintings on real spider webs. Originated by a famed Innsbruck family of Tyrol (now Italy), the secret of this type of painting was lost when last members of this family died. Unlike the flimsy cobweb of the ordinary house spider, these spider-web backgrounds are thick and durable like tough canvas. Usually small, 2 by 3 inches, thes? paintings have endured for 403 years. i |