The history of art is filled with lost masterpieces, paintings and artefacts that have been destroyed, altered or even painted over by the artist and discovered centuries later. We have long accepted that works such as these might never be known to us, but in recent years this assumption has been upended.
The article which follows is on the technologies discovering new clues about the world’s greatest art works.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220628-the-lost-masterpieces-being-revealed