Investigating Bellini's Feast of the Gods

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Dosso Dossi subsequently decorated a gallery for the Duke, and, in 1522, painted over half of Bellini's canvas. Seven years later, Titian repainted the <i>Feast of the Gods</i> again. What did the earlier versions look like? How much of each artist's work do we see today? What motivated these unprecedented changes? </span></font></p> <p class="19pt"><font size="+1" color="white"><span class="19pt">F</span></font><font color="white"><span class="19pt">OR CENTURIES these questions remained unanswered. In the last Fifty years, technical innovations in conservation science have enabled specialists at the National Gallery to obtain X-ray, infrared and cross-section data. 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