WONT POST TO WEB TILL MIDNIGHT High-tech study reveals early Van Gogh work beneath landscape

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 00:07 in Physics & Chemistry

WON'T POST TO WEB TILL MIDNIGHT. X-rays from a particle accelerator help scientists reconstruct a portrait the artist had covered up to paint his 'Patch of Grass' in 1887. Using a thin beam of synchrotron X-rays generated by a particle accelerator, European scientists have reconstructed a portrait of a peasant woman painted by Vincent van Gogh that had been concealed beneath another painting for 121 years.

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