"A Burial at Ornans was a major turning point in the history of art, signalling a shift away from formal, academic and grandiose depictions of the past to inspired, innovative and often confounding versions of the present."
"Though it may no longer be scandalous, it is still mysterious. Who are those mourners on the right, and why are there dim faces lurking behind them?"
"Conservators will start to unlock some of these secrets early next year, when the work undergoes an ambitious treatment that will aim to do everything from modulating the effects of yellowing varnish to investigating folds of painted canvas now obscured behind the immense gilded frame."
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