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An intern at the Royal Library of Belgium identified an ancient engraving by Brueghel: a 2nd perform by the Flemish master appeared to be concealed on the again of the sheet.
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Margaux Nogues, 23, designed the discovery when restoring the picture The carving from 1559, an engraving that Hieronymus de Cock made of Brueghel’s do the job. In accomplishing so, he experienced to take away a piece of cardboard on which the function experienced been glued. Acid cardboard can problems the print.
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“I put the print in a warm h2o bathtub. The carton peeled off quite very easily,” the Frenchwoman advised RTBF broadcaster. “When I took it off, I identified one more work on the again: a 2nd Brueghel engraving.”
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The next operate turned out to be a version of Brueghels Tolerancean allegorical representation of endurance from 1557. The personification of this virtue is surrounded by creatures this kind of as all those in the do the job of Hieronymus Bosch, who characterize evil and sin in the planet.
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Brueghel also took the liberty of criticizing the Roman Catholic Church by presenting figures in monk’s robes and a bizarre giant in a cardinal’s hat. These ended up censored in afterwards variations of the engraving.
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Very similar etchings have raised extra than € 15,000 at auctions.
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Though the library already owned a few prints of this image, the institute phone calls it a specific uncover. “It is quite unusual to uncover two engravings on the front and back again of a leaf,” says a push release. “The recto-sexual intercourse print was not prevalent in the sixteenth century.”
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Library experts suspect it was proof, due to the fact the photos have unique sizes. Considering the fact that the edges of the image do not line up very well, it is suspected that the print was not intended for sale.
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In the meantime, Nogues prepares to defend his thesis in September, with an further line in his CV. “I have only been executing restorations for 5 years, but I will recall it for a prolonged time.”
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