now you see it
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now you see it
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Title. Hendrick van Anthonissen, View of Scheveningen Sands (1641), after restoration in 2014
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However, after conservator Shan Kuang took a scalpel to the painting (its varnish was terribly yellowed), the reason for the beachcomber’s interest was revealed. A stranded whale.
Why cover it up? Kuang, who thinks the whale was painted over in the eighteenth century, says: "Today we treat works of art as entities, but in the previous centuries paintings were often elements of interior design that were adapted to fit certain spaces – or adjusted to suit changing tastes."
Why cover it up? Kuang, who thinks the whale was painted over in the eighteenth century, says: "Today we treat works of art as entities, but in the previous centuries paintings were often elements of interior design that were adapted to fit certain spaces – or adjusted to suit changing tastes."
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kk, “now you see it,” The Middle Shore, accessed April 29, 2024, https://middleshore.omeka.net/items/show/73.