Terahertz scanner reveals hidden fresco at Louvre

[dipsydoodle]

A technique based on the same kind of technology used in airport scanners has revealed images beneath a fresco held at the Louvre museum in Paris.

Trois Hommes Armes de Lances was known to be a fresco forged by Giampetro Campana on a wall from Roman times.

The new research suggests that under that forgery lies a real Roman fresco.

The discovery was announced at the American Chemical Society meeting by Bianca Jackson of the University of Rochester in the US.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22118926

[sakabatou]

1. Which makes me wonder

Why do it, if not for money?

[pipoman]

2. Was it a forgery

or was it craft. I was recently at an auction which had several pieces of craftsman era quarter sawn oak furniture, among it was a Gustav Stickley wash table that someone had adorned with painted birds and butterflies..

[Shivering Jemmy]

3. Maybe he was "fixing" it

A la the woman who fixed the Spanish fresco of Jesus.

[sakabatou]

4. Are they going to restore it at all?