These works are considered classics, but what they hide ... Goose bumps!

When an artist little dorisovyvaet picture - this is called Pentimento. Such dorisovki often occurred throughout the history of art. Pentimento usually difficult to see with the naked eye. This requires x-aparat.

Pentimento often serves only to change some unimportant details. But sometimes it completely changes the whole meaning of the painting. How, for example, in these five masterpieces.

Keith in Hendrik van Antonissena "The scene on the banks»


When the work of the artist came to the museum, the man who did the reconstruction of the picture, wondered why on the bank depicted so many people, but there was nothing going on. Then he discovered that the painting was originally depicted the whale, which was soon painted over. Many believe the whale was likely painted over from the purely aesthetic reasons: the little one wanted to hang in the house of a picture of a dead whale.



Photo: University of Campbridge

Hidden Geometry to the Pablo Picasso's "Old Guitarist»


Picasso were unprofitable years. That's when he used his old web to new pictures. This is what happened with the "old guitarist." After careful examination of the picture you can see the outline of another figure. X-rays showed that it was a picture of a woman holding a child in rural areas.



Photo: Northwestern



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The mysterious disappearance of the King of Rome


Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' Portrait of Jacques de-Marc de Monbreton NOK "is one of the most famous examples Pentimento. This portrait of the chief of police in Rome after Napoleon conquered the city. The researchers suggest that a bust of Napoleon's son was originally in the background. But after Napoleon was defeated, it was not safe, and the bust was hidden.



Photo: WikiArt

The dead child, or a sack of potatoes


"Angel" - a picture of the French painter Jean-Francois Millet in 1859. On the surface you can see two of the peasants in the field, who are looking at a basket of potatoes. However, after X-rays revealed that the basket was originally a small coffin.



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«Preparation of the Bride" is not really what it seems


This painting was part of nedorisovannyh scenes of rural life. After X-rays in 1960, it turned out that in fact there are not shown the preparation of the bride to the marriage, and the funeral, because the heroine is drawn dead.



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