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News from the NOS•yesterday, 14:03•Modified yesterday, 14:52
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An intern at the Royal Library of Belgium found out an historical engraving by Brueghel: a 2nd perform by the Flemish learn appeared to be hidden on the back again of the sheet.
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Margaux Nogues, 23, built the discovery while restoring the image The carving from 1559, an engraving that Hieronymus de Cock created of Brueghel’s function. In executing so, he experienced to take away a piece of cardboard on which the function had been glued. Acid cardboard can destruction the print.
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“I set the print in a warm drinking water bathtub. The carton peeled off quite effortlessly,” the Frenchwoman instructed RTBF broadcaster. “When I took it off, I learned a further do the job on the back again: a second Brueghel engraving.”
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The second do the job turned out to be a edition of Brueghels Endurancean allegorical illustration of endurance from 1557. The personification of this advantage is surrounded by creatures these as people in the function of Hieronymus Bosch, who represent evil and sin in the earth.
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Brueghel also took the liberty of criticizing the Roman Catholic Church by presenting figures in monk’s robes and a weird huge in a cardinal’s hat. These had been censored in afterwards variations of the engraving.
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Very similar etchings have raised a lot more than € 15,000 at auctions.
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Despite the fact that the library currently owned 3 prints of this picture, the institute calls it a specific uncover. “It is pretty abnormal to locate two engravings on the entrance and back again of a leaf,” suggests a push release. “Double-sided printing was not frequent in the 16th century.”
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Library gurus suspect it was evidence, due to the fact the photos have distinctive measurements. Because the edges of the picture do not line up perfectly, it is suspected that the print was not intended for sale.
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In the meantime, Nogues prepares to protect his thesis in September, with an more line in his CV. “I’ve only been undertaking restorations for 5 decades, but I’ll recall it for a extensive time.”
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