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Restorer finds hidden pig in 1600's Dutch work
Illini.com ^ | August 31st, 2009 | staff reporter

Posted on 08/31/2009 3:21:49 PM PDT by Daffynition

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A restorer's work has found a hidden image of a butchered pig in a painting from the collection of Michigan's Calvin College.

The 17th century Dutch work Barn Interior is one of 16 paintings that Calvin alumnus Cornelius Van Nuis gave the Grand Rapids school two years ago.

Egbert van der Poel's work shows a woman and two children inside the barn. Van der Poel lived from 1621 to 1664.

Last summer, Calvin director of exhibitions Joel Zwart sent Barn Interior to Chicago art conservator Barry Bauman.

"What with chemicals and soot and dirt in the air, paintings naturally get darker," Zwart said in a statement. "When they get cleaned, there's a change in appearance."

He noticed that a ladder on the left side of the painting had been heavily painted over and the paint was flaking.

Underneath, he discovered a pig, butchered and stretched hanging upside down from the ladder.

"It was painted over, and the obvious question is, Why was it painted over?" said Zwart. "Well, it was most likely not covered over by the artist. Very likely a wealthy patron bought it.

"It's this grotesque scene, this butchered animal hanging in a barn. And quite likely this patron hired another artist to paint it over."

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To: Grammy

Another look, it’s a rooster pecking at something the floor [I think].


21 posted on 08/31/2009 4:28:17 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Sparko

Think Adobe has a case for copyright infringement? ;)


22 posted on 08/31/2009 4:32:26 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition

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Thanks Daffynition. Obviously this discovery is another right-wing Christian attempt to offend Moslems. ;') ;') ;')

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23 posted on 08/31/2009 4:58:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Daffynition
Please Pass The Poupon


24 posted on 08/31/2009 5:37:51 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
I already had dinner. Now I need to walk it off.


25 posted on 08/31/2009 5:42:00 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition

26 posted on 08/31/2009 5:45:23 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
Hey! Who took her ear ring?


27 posted on 08/31/2009 5:55:27 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition
Dunno


28 posted on 08/31/2009 6:07:24 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
HAHAHA!

The thin vermeer wore off the more I drank


29 posted on 08/31/2009 6:09:15 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition
A little makeup will help


30 posted on 08/31/2009 6:23:05 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
Not on my job.


31 posted on 08/31/2009 6:26:55 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition

Maybe the reverse, Cornelius Van Nuis’ family?


32 posted on 08/31/2009 6:33:44 PM PDT by Sparko (Obama & czars: castrating Congress, perverting the Constitution, and emptying our wallets)
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To: Daffynition
How about a mask


33 posted on 08/31/2009 6:41:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Sparko

Yes. That too! LOL

All’s fair in love and war.


34 posted on 08/31/2009 8:15:40 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Sparko

Sorry, meant to say .........All’s fair in love and art. ;)


35 posted on 08/31/2009 8:16:46 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: JoeProBono

36 posted on 08/31/2009 8:18:35 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition

I see the rooster, that’s not what I am talking about. What I am looking at is to the left of the ladder, on the same plane as the bowl under the pig.


37 posted on 08/31/2009 9:02:59 PM PDT by Grammy (politics... poli ( many ) tics ( blood suckers ))
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To: Grammy

Gee ...I’m not sure ...it is bizzaro.

Maybe it’s best we don’t know. 8-D


38 posted on 08/31/2009 9:10:21 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Daffynition

The restorer should have restored the final image.

THAT is the final expression of the painting and should stand.


39 posted on 09/01/2009 5:12:44 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

Why? That wasn’t the original artist’s idea.

Good heavens, I suppose you are also like another poster I ran into who thinks that the Constitution is a living-breathing-document.

I surrender. Scio me nihil scire.


40 posted on 09/01/2009 2:09:11 PM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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