Beneath A Picasso Painting, A Mysterious Hidden Portrait Emerges
Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted one portrait, high-tech imaging tools have revealed a secret — another, earlier ...
Mysterious Portrait of a Woman Discovered Beneath Painting from Pablo Picasso's Blue Period
Historians recently made an unexpected discovery while examining one of Pablo Picasso’s paintings: a portrait of a woman.
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
Starting from the 3rd century CE, encaustic paint was almost completely replaced by tempera. Tempera portraits, although as detailed as the encaustic ones, did not have the same glossy finish and ...
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See the Hidden Portrait of a Mysterious Woman Discovered Beneath a Picasso Painting
X-ray and infrared imaging has revealed a long-hidden painting beneath "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto," providing ...
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The art of encaustic painting
One of the most notable applications of encaustic painting in antiquity was the creation of Fayum mummy portraits in Roman Egypt during the 1st to 3rd centuries CE. These stunningly realistic ...
Mysterious portrait of a woman revealed beneath Picasso painting
Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its ...
Portrait of mystery woman found beneath famous Pablo Picasso painting, conservators say
A portrait of a mystery woman was found beneath Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" by the Courtauld ...