Enciclopedia Cattolica

Plate LXVI · Artistic Forgeries

Vol. V (1950) · full-page plate
Left: 16TH-CENTURY PAINTING artfully transformed into a portrait of a knight with a feathered hat - Rome, private collection. Right: THE SAME PAINTING OF THE PREVIOUS FIGURE, photographed with X-rays. There appears a 16th-century sketch for a portrait of a prelate - Rome, private collection.
(da V. Mariani, *Soppa di radiodispersione d'un quadro antico*, Roma 1912)
Plate LXVI
Left: 16TH-CENTURY PAINTING artfully transformed into a portrait of a knight with a feathered hat - Rome, private collection. Right: THE SAME PAINTING OF THE PREVIOUS FIGURE, photographed with X-rays. There appears a 16th-century sketch for a portrait of a prelate - Rome, private collection.

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