Science's biggest oops moments
Nature's perfect balance
The brain's rewiring act
Finding the code's bugs
Painting over the past
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Master of The beautiful science of changing your mind
007skaty The Art of Pentimento
The fading paint reveals the choices that we had to rewrite, As ghostly outlines find their way right back into the light.
007skaty Frustrated by flawed marble, Michelangelo smashed his unfinished sculpture with a hammer before Tiberio Calcagni repaired and reattached
007skaty Holographic neon slashes mark heavy editorial cuts across a dark digital manuscript
007skaty Swipe new paint over old canvases to discover how we constantly correct our past.
Gatsby's name: F. Scott Fitzgerald wanted to name his famous novel 'Under the Red, White, and Blue' before his editor convinced him to change it.
A manuscript or surface on which original writing or artwork has been effaced to make room for later work. Giotto's fourteenth-century fresco Lamentation is a famous example, retouched by nineteenth-century restorer Giuseppe Molteni.
Who was the assistant who repaired and reassembled Michelangelo's damaged Bandini Pietà sculpture?
Which Renaissance master smashed his unfinished Bandini Pietà in 1555, which was then repaired by his assistant?
What Italian word, meaning repentance, refers to visible traces of earlier ideas that an artist painted over?
In what year was X-ray technology first used on paintings, revealing hidden layers of artistic self-correction?
Who was the legendary editor who gave F. Scott Fitzgerald the feedback that sparked the massive rewrite of Gatsby?
What major climax of the 1977 Star Wars movie did Marcia Lucas completely rewrite and restructure in the editing room?
Which author spent late 1924 heavily rewriting and self-correcting his draft of The Great Gatsby?