Observed arrival · 2026-10-06
The Dark Detail: One Painting, One Detail, Every Week
An art-history video project that zooms in on overlooked details in famous paintings and follows the evidence behind them.
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- Viewers curious about the evidence behind famous paintings
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- The correction log retracts specific claims, including that Peter’s hand and knife in The Last Supper were a restoration discovery.
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The homepage describes a source-first workflow drawing on museum records, restoration reports, artists’ letters, and published research, with sources listed under each video. Its correction page says seven videos were checked line by line and records fixes ranging from a misspelled month to claims the team could not confirm. The page also says its thumbnails are made by hand from the paintings.
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