There's more than meets the eye in artist Rembrandt van Rijn's famous 17th-century painting, "Susanna and the Elders," according to a new study. To learn more about how the Dutch painter created his masterpiece, art historians and researchers recently compared two imaging techniques that revealed hidden layers in the nearly 400-year-old painting. SEE ALSO: Gallery: Hidden gems in Renaissance art The oil painting, dated and signed in 1647, hangs in Gemäldegalerie, an art museum in Berlin, German...
There's more than meets the eye in artist Rembrandt van Rijn's famous 17th-century painting, "Susanna and the Elders," according to a new study. To learn more about how the Dutch painter created his masterpiece, art historians and researchers recently compared two imaging techniques that revealed hidden layers in the nearly 400-year-old painting. SEE ALSO: Gallery: Hidden gems in Renaissance art The oil painting, dated and signed in 1647, hangs in Gemäldegalerie, an art museum in Berlin, German...
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