When conservators at the National Gallery of Victoria X-rayed a 17th-century artwork, they discovered a strange swirl in the right-hand corner. A little investigation ultimately revealed a hidden painting.
The National Gallery of Victoria found a hidden painting beneath this classical work by Nicolas Régnier when conservators X-rayed it.Whether you're a Fake or Fortune? super-fan or just a regular punter killing time at the art gallery on the weekend, it's hard not to get sucked into a story about a hidden masterpiece.Photo shows Namila Benson, a Papua New Guinean Australian woman with a red afro, smiles brightly, standing on an outside path.
However, several years ago when the gallery's conservators X-rayed the painting, a big question mark appeared over the work. A great white swirl in the upper-right quadrant of the canvas all but obscured the face and torso of Hero, leading the gallery to wonder if there could be a hidden painting beneath the work.
"For example, a change in gesture or a smile or a turn of the head, minor adjustments to the image. What this was showing us though, was that there was a completely different painting underneath with a different theme that had no relation at all to what we see here." I call it the "Dan Brown effect": the public's interest in old paintings is often tied to the idea that there are hidden secrets under the oil paint, left by the artist to be passed down through the generations and only revealed long after their death.
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