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Listening Unit one passage 24
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★Listening to part of the talk in Art History class
To study painting by all masters, experts often make use the modern technologies, today let' talk about one example of that X-rays. These days X-rays equipment is no longer found just in hospitals and dentist' offices. Now it' also widely used in the study of work of art and it leads to exciting discoveries. For instance, an art historian in Ohio discovered that the 2 famous paintings now held in different museum were originally part of same painting. Probably sawed apart by some greedy art dealers. X-rays show several hidden figures that had been split between the two canvases. In another famous painting, a portrait of young boy, and X-rays revealed the artist had once painted a small white dog where now only rocks and grass can be seen. In this case, the technology gives us the insight into how the artist thinking developed and changed during the process of painting a picture. Perhaps the most important question in artist history they have to address is whether the particular work was actually painted by a certain master artist or perhaps by a less well known painters or imitators. They have brush dropper back in X-rays revealed may lead to definite answer to this question but not always. Let me tell you now about two respected experts and how each use X-rays of one famous Dutch portrait to support radically different conclusions about it.
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