{"id":142210,"date":"2022-07-14T20:22:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-hidden-self-portrait-has-been-discovered-by-x-ray-on-the-back-of-a-van-gogh-painting"},"modified":"2022-07-14T20:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T01:22:28","slug":"a-hidden-self-portrait-has-been-discovered-by-x-ray-on-the-back-of-a-van-gogh-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-hidden-self-portrait-has-been-discovered-by-x-ray-on-the-back-of-a-van-gogh-painting","title":{"rendered":"A hidden self-portrait has been discovered by X-ray on the back of a Van Gogh painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-hidden-self-portrait-has-been-discovered-by-x-ray-on-the-back-of-a-van-gogh-painting2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNGS experts believe these materials were applied ahead of an exhibition in the early twentieth century,\u201d the organization said in a press release. \u201cVan Gogh often re-used canvases to save money. However, instead of painting over earlier works, he would turn the canvas around and work on the reverse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The portrait shows \u201ca bearded sitter in a brimmed hat with a neckerchief loosely tied at the throat,\u201d NGS says. The portrait has an intense stare, and the right side of his face is in shadow, while his left ear is clearly visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNGS experts believe these materials were applied ahead of an exhibition in the early twentieth century,\u201d the organization said in a press release. \u201cVan Gogh often re-used canvases to save money. However, instead of painting over earlier works, he would turn the canvas around and work on the reverse.\u201d The portrait shows \u201ca bearded sitter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}