After examining the French artist Paul Gauguin’s The Little Cat with X-ray imaging, experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam are unraveling the painting’s secrets—including a hidden beetle. When ...

Finds include hidden third "ghost hand," alterations to a crown in Ramesses II portrait It is known that the ancient Egyptians had a highly formalized (and easily recognizable) painting style, and ...

A reconstruction of the Baronci Altarpiece by Raphael, showing the two recently AI-investigated works. Image: Danilo Pavone, ISPC-CNR, Catania / Raphael A team of researchers just scanned two famous ...

The "Mona Lisa" has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the techniques that ...

A team of researchers recently studied paintings in the Theban Necropolis near the Nile River using X-ray fluorescence imaging and discovered never-before-seen details of the painting process. Under X ...

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Reminds me of a recent Metropolitan Museum exhibit where they reconstructed a number of Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in what they believe to be the original colors, based on a lot of detailed ...