Michelangelo's arthritis, Rembrandt's selfies, the hidden figures of Goya and Picasso, Caravaggio's carnage illnesses, and Van Gogh's scientific projections ... the mysteries of art where scientists could shed light on.
- GOYA'S POLITICAL PASSION (FALL). In 1823, Spanish artist Francisco Goya painted the portrait of Don Ramon Satue, a judge of the Spanish Supreme Court. But beneath this portrait was hidden an important, but also notorious, Spanish story. It is about the portrait of a French general, realized between 1809 and 1813, when Napoleon appointed his brother king of Spain. Goya canceled the portrait for political reasons, as the French had withdrawn from Spain and it was dangerous to still have links with the old regime. Thus, his secret remained hidden for more than two centuries.
- CAKE IN BLUE ROOM. Picasso painted the 'Blue Room' in 1901, during his 'blue' period. The painting has always drawn the attention and sympathy of historians, above all for the strange paintings used. And in fact, by examining the painting by means of infrared rays, a man with a butterfly tie appeared. At that time Picasso was not very good at the economic situation and reused his paintings in part or completely.
- AUTOPORTRET I FSHEHUR THE CARAVAGGIO. In 2009, a mulitspectral reflector realized on the carpet of the famous "Bacco" of Caravaggio, located in Florence, has highlighted a human portrait that is reflected on the glass door down, left. It's Merisi's self-portrayal. This is stated, among others, by Mina Gregori, one of the greatest artists of the artist; To see Caravaggio's self-portrait as it paints.
- SCIENCE OF VAN GOGH. Researchers Natalya St. Clair has explained how Van Gogh, locked in a madness, has come to perceive and present one of the most difficult concepts that nature can offer to man; The concept of turbulent flow in the fluid dynamics. A very difficult concept to explain, which the Russian physicist Andrey Kolmogorov could only codify in 1940 through an equation, but that Van Gogh, in 1889, had presented perfectly in his "Night with Stars" painting.
- FISHER'S SECRET. Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853-1919) was one of the first Hungarian painters to be recognized and appreciated (eg Picasso) in the European environment. In this harbor of an old fisherman conceal a secret, discovered only after the painter's death. Placing a mirror in the middle of the painting and reflecting only half of the face, the character is transformed into two portraits; A person who prays is the devil. Do not you believe it? See the next picture.
Semi-portrait portrait in Kosztka's painting
- PASTER BOTTLES. One of the masterpieces of Western art, "Spring" by Sandro Botticelli, has a distinct but obvious secret: Botticelli's extreme care for details, above all those floral. Botanists, in fact, could identify in his painting 500 different plant species and 190 species of flowers.
