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Keith in the picture Hendrick van Anthonissen "Beach Scene»
After painting by Dutch artist of the 17th century came to a public museum, its holder has noticed something unusual in it. How come so many people are on the beach for no apparent reason? During removal of the first layer of painting the truth came out. In fact, originally the artist painted the carcass on the beach whale, which was later painted over. Scientists believe that it has been painted for aesthetic purposes. Not many people would want to have at home a picture of a dead whale.





The hidden figure in the painting of Pablo Picasso's "The Old Guitarist»

Picasso was living in a very difficult period, when he had no money even for new paintings, so he had to draw a new picture over the old, repeatedly repainting them. So it was in the case of the old guitarist.



At very close examination you can see the outline of a picture of another person. X-rays showed that earlier it was a picture, which showed a woman with a child in the countryside



The mysterious disappearance of the Roman king

Portrait of "Jacques Marquet, Baron de Monbreton de NOK" artist by the name of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, is one of the brightest representatives of the political Pentimento. On this canvas you can see the portrait of the chief of police of Rome, but before the canvas was written something else.
Scientists believe that after the conquest of Rome by Napoleon, the canvas adorned bust of Napoleon's son, whom he had himself proclaimed king of Rome. But after Napoleon was defeated, the bust of his son was successfully painted over



The dead child or a basket of potatoes?

You can see in the picture by French artist Jean-François Millet, called «L'Angelus» 1859, two peasants who stand in the middle of the field, and sadly looking at a basket of potatoes. However, when the painting was examined by means of X-ray revealed that in place before the basket was a small coffin with a small child.
Roentgen was not random. Salvador Dalí insisted on x-ray, arguing that the painting depicts a funeral scene. Eventually Louvre reluctant to make a roentgen picture, and a premonition of Salvador Dali was justified



Painting "Preparing the Bride", it's not what it seems

Painting "Preparing the Bride" is actually an unfinished painting. This painting was part of a series depicting the tradition of French rural life of Gustave Courbet. It was written in the mid-1800s and acquired by the museum in 1929.
In 1960 the painting was examined by X-ray and the fact that scientists have found, threw them into shock. The original painting depicts a scene of the funeral, and the woman at the center of the painting was dead.

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