> The artwork was already there, so not sure 'discovered' is the right word.
"Discovered" is used exactly once in the article, in the sentence, "urther, the conservators discovered metal nails under some of these plaster frescoes, which they believe were likely inserted to hold in place more of the resin surface for oil painting." Seems to be exactly the right word where it is used.
It isn't used referring to the work itself, which obviously was not discovered and which the article doesn't suggest was.
> Does it make a difference now we know it was painted by Raphael himself?
It clearly makes a difference to understanding of the provenance of the piece and, from the other side, knowledge of the body of Raphael's work. Whether that's important to you will, of course, vary based on how important those issues are to you.
Probably not, considering that many (possibly most) of the well known modern and contemporary painters have other people put the paint on the canvas for them.
Probably just an editing error but I find it interesting that, according to the text of the article, they were finished with the restoration before they ever started.
>The restoration of the Hall of Constantine began in March 2025 and was completed in December 2024.
Someone probably fat-fingered a number in one or more of those dates or swapped them.
Probably suitably air-gapped so that none of us plebes can remote into it and spin for a random date to kick off a global reboot.
I wonder whether it uses a joystick, scrolling wheel, or a user-selectable date and whether the user can pick their spawn point. What is the date format? Gregorian calendar or earlier? Is the machine bright enough make date corrections based on where you want to go on that date if the location doesn't use a standard European calendar?
It would really suck to pick a date where you know something important was gonna happen and find out you rolled it all back to a different continent because you glitched the part where you were supposed to end up in Atlantis and found yourself treading water in the middle of the Atlantic because of a spelling error.
Too many questions here. The unknownable unknowns are a real drag.
Do you mean the dragon in the background? Fwiw dinosaur fossils have been found for thousands of years already, with theories being that the Cyclops was based on mammoth skulls and griffins on triceratops fossils.
The mammoth-cyclops/griffin-triceratops connection sounded really cool, so I did some quick searches. For what it's worth, it seems that this is a pop theory but not based in evidence.
That is clearly a dinosaur, but almost certainly an avian dinosaur, which aren't particularly hard to find, either in Christian religious art or, for that matter, daily life in much of the world.
I'm 99% sure that's an ostrich. I do understand your confusion, however...ostriches are pretty dinosaur-like and I have no idea why she is sitting on one.
Three highly trained assistents to one of to he greatest artists who over lived, credited with contributing to major masterworks couldn't learn oilpainting? A common evening class subjest, nearly universally considered much easier then painting fresco.
It will make a difference, of course. But should it?