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An x-ray analysis determined that in Giorgione's The Tempest, the soldier on the left was originally painted as

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“The Tempest” (known in Italy also as "The Gypsy woman and the soldier") is a painting by Italian artist Giorgione dated between 1506 and 1508 in which the X-rays revealed that in place of a solider on the left, Giorgione originally painted another naked woman.

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