X-radiograph(s) of "Male Portrait" 

Curator: Here we have an X-radiograph of Sandro Botticelli's "Male Portrait". It's fascinating to see the painting stripped bare, laid open. Editor: It's like a ghost! Or a memory fading. The textures are so unexpected; the dripping lines remind me of a rain-streaked window. Curator: Those drips likely reveal the painting's layers, the underpainting, the materials used and their decay. It demystifies the "masterpiece," showing the physical object beneath the image. Editor: And somehow, that peek behind the curtain, at the actual bones of the thing, only makes it more poignant. We're seeing time itself at work, aren't we? Curator: Absolutely. It's a collision of art and science, revealing the material history embedded within Botticelli's creation. Editor: I'll never look at a Botticelli the same way again!