Conservation at Princeton reveals a Rubens beneath layers of overpainting
Princeton University Art Museum’s conservation of The Death of Adonis removed discoloured varnish and later overpainting. The treatment brought the appearance of the 1639 painting closer to what Rubens had intended.
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