The Renaissance Master He turned a leg of legs to the air and painted the Ecce Homo over. Almost five centuries later is rThe hidden portrait of a mysterious man evelled.
The magic of art and the power of science revealed a secrethidden for centuries. Under a 1570 Titian oil painting another work was hidden.
Researchers do They discovered a portrait under a painting by Titian Renaissance master, whose representation is now exposed in the city of Limassol, Cyprus.
“What is unique in this painting is that it has a secret and the secret is an unknown painting, so far, under the Ecce Homo and the discovery and mapping of this painting underneath helped us to understand much more than we knew today on the reuse of screens and the reuse of paintings in Renaissance Ateliers, particularly at the Titian studio, “he told Reuters Nikolas Bakirtzis, historian of art and architecture and Cyi Professor QEU leads the team.
To work of finished art, Ecce Homo – which means “behold man” – shows Jesus alongside Pontius Pilate, who presided at the last phases of Jesus’ judgment before this crucified being.
The painting was being prepared for conservation when the investigators placed it in the microscope and noticed in different pigments through the crackle, or pattern of thin cracks that form on the surface of the old paintings.
“It was like discovering a puzzle,” said Bakirtzis.
Using noninvasive techniques, Andreas researchers Pittas ArtcharaCterization Laboratories (APAC) in CYI completed the hidden portrait: An unidentified man with a thin mustache and a pity in his hand, standing by a pile of papers or books.
“It is clearly the portrait of a banker, a lawyer, some professional in his work space,” he said Nikolas Bakirtzis.
Based on X -ray images, experts recreated oil painting, now exposed in Limassol in a Titian painting show that runs until March 10th.
Born Tiziano Vecellio in 1488, Ticiano produced hundreds of paintings in your studio in Venice until his death in 1576.
The investigators know that it reused the partially finished works of works. In this case, it was a complete portrait that turned legs to the air and painted the Ecce Homo over.
“Other paintings or works partially painted under some of their other screens have been discovered, but I am not aware of any case where we can safely map the direct painting of a composition over an anterior.”Disse in Baurtz.
The Specialist He believes that Titian used elements of the previous painting for the new, including the use of man’s chin to outline the strings that attack the pulses of Christ.
Revealed the hidden portrait, other mysteries are unraveling. Who was the man and why didn’t he get his painting?
