研究人員發現畢加索作品《蜷坐的女人》畫中有畫

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).

日前，美國的研究人員通過使用一種新掃描技術，發現巴勃羅·畢加索的偉大藝術作品《蜷坐的女人》下面還藏着另一幅畫。

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

該油畫的下面是巴塞羅那的景觀，事實證明，這是畢加索這部傑作的基礎。

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射線熒光系統比另類藝術掃描系統更便宜，而且便攜，可供任何需要的畫廊使用。

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

《蜷坐的女人》是畢加索藍色時期的一幅畫作。

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.

值得注意的是，該畫下面的風景畫--可能是一位學生藝術家的作品，並被調轉了90度。背景中山丘的輪廓成爲了蜷坐的女人的背部。

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.

位於多倫多的安大略美術館的館長肯尼斯·布魯梅爾表示，當他第一次獲悉《蜷坐的女人》這幅作品下隱藏的內容時，他“非常興奮”。

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

他向BBC新聞透露：“這一發現有助於確認繪畫的日期，也有助於確定繪畫的地點。”