Hidden portrait 'found under Mona Lisa', says French scientist(bbc.com)
bbc.com
Hidden portrait 'found under Mona Lisa', says French scientist
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35031997
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As someone else pointed out before, this was probably nothing noteworthy. Artists always make multiple layers and improve upon a base, this is just standard technique. This isn't some Da Vinci Code hidden Illuminati story.
They also reuse canvases because they tend to be poor and hey, they've already got this perfectly serviceable canvas sitting around with something they don't care about.
pics or it didn't happen (i mean the real layer back light see-through stuff).
preferably before and after substraction of what can be seen without the backlighting..
preferably before and after substraction of what can be seen without the backlighting..
Couldn't they be pentimenti?