A Botticelli painting has been discovered after experts stripped off dirt and more than a century of yellow varnish. The work was thought to be an imitation of Sandro Botticelli’s famous Madonna Of The Pomegranate. But it was discovered to be the real thing when English Heritage conservators cleaned the 15th-century masterpiece. X-ray testing, infrared... Read More
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