{"id":1351,"date":"2011-09-27T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2011-09-27T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T20:15:32","slug":"layers-upon-layers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/09\/27\/layers-upon-layers\/","title":{"rendered":"Layers upon Layers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment1355\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2011\/09\/55517296_goya_composite1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment1355\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1355\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2011\/09\/55517296_goya_composite1.jpg\" alt=\"A masterpiece within a masterpiece\" width=\"464\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2011\/09\/55517296_goya_composite1.jpg 464w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2011\/09\/55517296_goya_composite1-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment1355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A masterpiece within a masterpiece<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All works of art are built from the works that have preceded them, in a series of creative reinterpretations that allow artists to explore new possibilities. As Core scholars, we are familiar with this flow of creation, but this week it took on a more literal meaning when the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-15018174\">new Goya work <\/a>hidden underneath one of the museum&#8217;s paintings. The museum used a new X-Ray technique on the painting that had revealed a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/7535574.stm\">hidden Van Gogh painting<\/a> in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Art historians at the museum believe the &#8220;new&#8221; portrait may depict Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon&#8217;s brother, who was established by Napoleon as king of Spain from 1808 to 1813. The scholars believe Goya may have covered up his original work and started a new portrait after Bonaparte&#8217;s regime fell and the political winds again favored the Spanish King Ferdinand VII.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All works of art are built from the works that have preceded them, in a series of creative reinterpretations that allow artists to explore new possibilities. As Core scholars, we are familiar with this flow of creation, but this week it took on a more literal meaning when the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam found a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3715],"tags":[48727,4312,6721,426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}