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X-ray reveals hidden Goya painting

A previously unknown painting by Francisco de Goya has been found hidden underneath one of his masterpieces, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has announced.

(Full story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15018174)

I love things like this. I love the fact that we x-ray paintings.

Francisco Goya
The Third of May 1808 
1814, Oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid
268 × 347 cm (106 × 137 in)

“Most of the victims have faces. The killers do not. This is one of the most often-noted aspects of the Third of May, and rightly so: with this painting, the modern image of war as anonymous killing is born, and a long tradition of killing as ennobled spectacle comes to its overdue end.” -from Robert Hughes book, Goya 

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Francisco Goya
Saturn Devouring His Son
1819–1823.
Oil mural transferred to canvas, 143cm x 81cm. Museo del Prado,Madrid