{"id":5639,"date":"2014-06-06T15:45:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T22:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2014-06-16T15:49:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T22:49:50","slug":"i-knew-there-was-an-invisible-whale-there-i-just-knew-it-woo-hoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/06\/i-knew-there-was-an-invisible-whale-there-i-just-knew-it-woo-hoo\/","title":{"rendered":"I knew there was an invisible whale there! I just knew it, woo-hoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/hidden-beached-whale-revealed-17th-century-dutch-painting-120128166.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Yahoo! News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Hidden Beached Whale Revealed in 17th-Century Dutch Painting<\/h1>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1402954664981_1426\" style=\"color: #000000;\">By\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1402954664981_1395\" class=\"fn\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">by Megan Gannon, News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"editorial \" title=\"View of Scheveningen Sands, before and after conservators uncovered a beached whale in the painting. (Fitzwilliam Museum)\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.yimg.com\/bt\/api\/res\/1.2\/kWpfOw5uP5DdefxxMm6nyw--\/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTczMw--\/http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/os\/publish-images\/news\/2014-06-06\/a30c4250-ed90-11e3-9ce0-77e61ccc702d_Beached-Whale.jpg\" alt=\"View of Scheveningen Sands, before and after conservators uncovered a beached whale in the painting. (Fitzwilliam Museum)\" width=\"480\" data-preembed=\"image\" \/><em>View of Scheveningen Sands, before and after conservators uncovered a beached whale in the painting. (Fitzwilliam\u00a0\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When art conservators in the United Kingdom were cleaning a 17th-century Dutch seascape, they\u00a0found a surprise: an image of a beached whale that had been hidden for at least 150 years.<\/p>\n<p>Until recently, the painting \u2014 &#8220;View of Scheveningen Sands,&#8221; created by Hendrick van Anthonissen around 1641 \u2014 simply showed groups of people gathered on a beach in The Hague in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seemed a very unassuming painting depicting a very calm beach scene set in winter,&#8221; Shan Kuang, a conservation student at the University of Cambridge&#8217;s Fitzwilliam Museum, said in a new\u00a0<a style=\"color: #324fe1;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/46096-beached-whale-revealed-in-mysterious-dutch-painting-video.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-rapid_p=\"9\">video explaining the strange find<\/a>. &#8220;There were clusters of people gathered. I was unclear why they were there, but it didn&#8217;t seem too out of normal.&#8221; [<a style=\"color: #324fe1;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/28687-image-gallery-artwork-revealed-by-technology.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-rapid_p=\"10\">Image Gallery: Technology Reveals Hidden Art Treasures<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Kuang was tasked with removing a coat of varnish, which is typically found on oil paintings, but unfortunately yellows over time. When she began cleaning, a figure emerged on the horizon of the ocean next to a shape that looked like a sail. This was &#8220;extremely peculiar and unexpected,&#8221; Kuang said. But further cleaning with a scalpel and solvent revealed the floating figure was actually standing on top of a whale, and what at first appeared to be a sail was actually the whale&#8217;s fin.<\/p>\n<p>At the time the painting was created, there was a surge of public interest in whales, researchers at the museum said, noting that historical records document a number of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #324fe1;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/40026-sonar-mass-stranding-whales.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-rapid_p=\"11\">whale strandings<\/a>\u00a0on the coastline of the Netherlands in the beginning of the 17th century.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/hidden-beached-whale-revealed-17th-century-dutch-painting-120128166.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Yahoo!<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Yahoo! News Hidden Beached Whale Revealed in 17th-Century Dutch Painting By\u00a0by Megan Gannon, News Editor View of Scheveningen Sands, before and after conservators uncovered a beached whale in the painting. (Fitzwilliam\u00a0\u2026 When art conservators in the United Kingdom were cleaning a 17th-century Dutch seascape, they\u00a0found a surprise: an image of a beached whale that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}