Today’s page of UNCLE JOHN’S BATHROOM READER PAGE-A-DAY Calendar
has an interesting article: English art
restorers cleaned up the painting A VILLAGE FAIR, WITH A CHURCH BEHIND by artist
Isaak van Ostade, 1643, owned by Queen Elizabeth. While restoring it they noticed one area the
brush strokes were of a different pattern than the rest of the painting. It was like they were covering up
something. They removed the mysterious
strokes to see what was underneath: a
man with his pants down squatting relieving himself. That was a popular trade mark of the artist
to show in nature paintings humans doing nature-type of things.
Above is the painting. I studied it for the dirty parts and had no luck.
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