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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Messilane, post: 14272, member: 68&quot;]<font size="5">I just saw this, and thought others would find it interesting as well.</font></p><p><font size="5">It shows some examples of &quot;pentimenti&quot;, but the one I like the best is the L&#039;Angelus.</font></p><p><font size="5">Some (all? LOL) of you may have known about it, but I did not.</font></p><p><font size="5"><a href="http://www.viralnova.com/pentimento-paintings/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.viralnova.com/pentimento-paintings/" rel="nofollow">http://www.viralnova.com/pentimento-paintings/</a></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><i>&quot;&quot;L&#039;Angelus&quot; is a painting by French artist Jean-François Millet from 1859. On the surface it depicts two peasant farmers in a field looking down at a basket of potatoes. However when the painting was x-rayed it was revealed that the basket of potatoes was originally a small coffin.</i></font></p><p><font size="5"><i><br /></i></font></p><p><font size="5"><i>The painting was only x-rayed after the artist, Salvador Dali, insisted that it was originally a funeral scene. Eventually the Louvre begrudgingly x-rayed it, vindicating Dali&#039;s hunch.&quot; </i></font></p><p><font size="5"><i><br /></i></font></p><p><font size="5"><i>[ATTACH=full]3441[/ATTACH] </i></font></p><p><font size="5"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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