guy Posted July 16, 2022 Report Share Posted July 16, 2022 (edited) The finding of this Van Gogh self-portrait under another Van Gogh painting is a great discovery. Quote Conservators at the National Galleries of Scotland recently experienced quite a surprise after they X-rayed a painting by Vincent van Gogh. Hidden on the reverse side of the painting “Head of a Peasant Woman" which Van Gogh completed in 1885, was a previously unknown self-portrait of the Dutch painter staring back at them. https://www.livescience.com/x-ray-reveals-van-gogh-portrait The finding of an artwork underneath another later work is reminiscent of the ancient documents found underneath a more modern work. An example is the Archimedes Palimpsest Quote Advanced imaging technology has been used for over two decades to read hidden texts within parchment manuscripts. The early pioneering work in the field was carried out by an international team of data scientists, imaging experts, and manuscript scholars, who came together to image the now famous Archimedes Palimpsest, found to contain lost mathematical treatises of ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes. More recently, imaging was carried out on the Syriac Galen Palimpsest, that revealed the scrubbed off text of Sergius of Resh 'Ayno's Syriac translation of ancient physician Galen's Greek pharmacological treatise, "On Simple Drugs.". https://hmml.org/research/palimpsest/ Edited July 16, 2022 by guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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