Wednesday 8 November 2017

A Very Fancy Grasshopper Was Found in the Paint of a Van Gogh Masterpiece

A Very Fancy Grasshopper Was Found in the Paint of a Van Gogh Masterpiece

This is not something researchers at museums see every day. When curators at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art put the Vincent van Gogh 19th-century masterpiece Olive Trees under the microscope to better understand the Dutch painter’s artistic process, a little critter was found entombed within the thick oil paint.
Read more: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/grasshopper-discovered-in-van-gogh-masterpiece-1142525?source=Snapzu

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