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ARTICLE · 25 AUGUST 2016

Particle Accelerator Technology Reveals Lost Degas Portrait

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This week's blog post is a nice mix of science and art, which are two of my favorite subject areas.

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This week's blog post is a nice mix of science and art, which are two of my favorite subject areas. An exciting discovery by a team of researchers at the Australian Synchrotron led to the recovery of an underlying portrait hidden upside down below Edgar Degas's painting, "Portrait of a Woman", which hangs in the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia.

Since the 1920s, the oil paints in Degas's portrait of the anonymous woman in "Portrait of a Woman" (c. 1876-1880) have been gradually fading over time, revealing a possible hidden portrait underneath.

Up until now, previous attempts to capture the underlying image hidden in "Portrait of a Woman" using conventional X-ray and infrared techniques have only showed a shadowy outline of another woman.

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