by Jon Lackman | 26 September 2008 | Uncategorized
According to the Telegraph,
A portrait of a woman by Vincent van Gogh that he later painted over has been revealed in more detail than every before thanks to a new X-ray technique … [which] allowed the team – led by Dr Joris Dik, from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and Professor Koen Janssens from the University of Antwerp in Belgium, – to build up a “colour photo” of the picture.
In another article, the paper notes that
It amounts to the biggest single art find: a host of unseen works by masters old and new, from Rembrandt to Van Gogh and Picasso. But these works can’t be seen on the walls of any gallery or museum. And they are hidden not in a safe or bank vault, but on canvases which the artists themselves painted over … It is not the first time that art historians have employed science to peer beyond the façade of masterworks … “But with this new technique we can reveal the image in colour.”
