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Berlin's Gemäldegalerie announced they've made a shocking discovery about the museum's Rembrandt masterpiece "Susanna and the Elders" (1647), "Focus" reports. An X-ray analysis of the oil painting has revealed that the it had at one time undergone extensive alterations.

According to the daily "Berliner Morgenpost" art restorer Claudia Laurenze-Landsberg, who conducted the analysis, noticed tiny pigments on the canvas that didn't exist in the 17th century. What's more, some parts of the painting were in a style that she didn't recognize as Rembrandt's.

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A leading Italian art restorer has denied his team has permanently damaged a series of medieval frescoes by Giotto and other artists.

Sergio Fusetti, lead restorer at the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi, said claims by an expert reported in the Italian press over damage to the frescoes were completely unfounded.

“The problem doesn’t exist. We carry out regular checks and maintenance, taking off the hard dust that’s been deposited on the frescoes. We have never done anything without the authorisation from the superintendency, which is the culture ministry in the territory,” he told the Guardian.

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