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Left: The red circles indicate where samples were taken. The team avoided sampling from the central part of the portrait. The areas noninvasively examined via X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy are marked in white. Right: The quality of the two seams seen on the back of the painting is different

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Nikolay Simonenko et al./Heritage Science

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