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    A hidden da Vinci lurks beneath 'The Virgin of the Rocks'

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    Steve Dent
    Steve Dent
    09.03.2019

    Researchers at the National Gallery of London have used cutting-edge techniques to reveal a hidden drawing beneath Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin of the Rocks. It shows that the great artist and his assistants, after laying out the original design, elected to take the biblical-themed painting in a completely different direction, to say the least.