扫描技术揭示毕加索名画背后隐藏着另一幅画

Researchers in the US have used a new scanning technique to discover a painting underneath one of Pablo Picasso’s great works of art, the Crouching Woman (La Misereuse Accroupie).

美国的研究人员使用一种新的扫描技术发现巴勃罗·毕加索的伟大艺术作品“蹲下的女人”下面还藏着另一幅画。

Underneath the oil painting is a landscape of Barcelona which, it turns out, Picasso used as the basis of his masterpiece.

油画下面是巴塞罗那的景观，事实证明，这是毕加索这部杰作的基础。

The new x-ray fluorescence system is cheaper than alternative art scanning systems - and it is portable, making it available to any gallery that wants it.

新的X射线荧光系统比替代艺术扫描系统便宜 - 而且便携，可供任何需要的画廊使用。

Details were revealed at the American Association for the Advancement for Science in Austin, Texas.

详细信息在得克萨斯州奥斯汀的美国科学促进会上公布。

The Crouching Woman is a painting from Picasso’s blue period.

“蹲下的女人”是毕加索蓝色时期的一幅画。

What is remarkable is that the landscape painting beneath - probably by a student artist - is turned 90 degrees. The contour of the hills in the background becomes the crouching woman’s back. She takes on the shape and form of the Catalan countryside.

值得注意的是，该画下面的风景画 - 可能是一位学生艺术家的作品，并被调转了90度。背景中山丘的轮廓成为蹲下的女人的背部。她以加泰罗尼亚乡村的形状和形式作为基础。

Kenneth Brummel, a curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, said that he was "excited" when he first learned what lay underneath the Crouching Woman.

多伦多安大略美术馆馆长Kenneth Brummel说，当他第一次了解到“蹲下的女人”这幅作品下隐藏的内容时他“很兴奋”。

"It helps to date the painting and it also helps to determine where the painting was made," he told BBC News.

“这有助于确认绘画的日期，它也有助于确定绘画的制作地点，”他告诉BBC新闻。

"But it also gives a sense of the artists with whom the painter was engaging. And these insights help us ask new, more interesting and scientifically more accurate questions regarding an artist, their process and how they arrived at the forms that we see on the surface of a painting."

“但是这也让我们了解画家与哪些艺术家有联系，这些见解有助于我们就艺术家，其创作的过程以及他们完成我们现在所看到的作品形式提出更有趣，更科学和更准确的问题。”