To: blam
How did they know to look with X-Rays? Did I miss the answer somewhere? Or did they just assume there might be something because artists at sea reused canvases?
6 posted on
07/09/2004 7:21:47 PM PDT by
Hank Rearden
(Refuse to allow anyone who could only get a government job tell you how to run your life.)
To: Hank Rearden
Sorry, can't answer your questions.
7 posted on
07/09/2004 7:47:52 PM PDT by
blam
To: Hank Rearden
How did they know to look with X-Rays? Very common to paint over paintings, to erase lettering and rewrite. Looking underneath is getting common, and sometimes they find something interesting. There is a word for parchments so treated--palimpsest. Or something like that.
8 posted on
07/09/2004 7:48:38 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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