Scientists discover painting hidden behind Picasso masterpiece
ray technology have discovered that he painted it over a landscape painting by an unknown artist. In 1957, when he was in his 70s, the Spanish painter mused that x-ray technology could one day discover a lost work underneath one of his early paintings. That prediction came to fruition when a team of researchers in the painted in 1902 - which is currently on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). They used a non-invasive technique called x-ray fluorescent spectroscopy to examine the 1902 painting and found that it was painted on top of ...
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