contemporary critics of brentano and clive that it was a. cutaway because this work is. only a single figure can be seen on the beach which is otherwise disaster. but now the monk is entering the age of virtual reality with high tech glasses you can now immerse yourself in this masterpiece and meet the monk in a life size representation. of you lose yourself in a different world in super great virtual reality experts in the national gallery have worked together on the project for one and a half years. we always try not just to reproduce the painting but to create a new world and in that way to interpret the painting and try to understand what the painter was thinking and what his vision was. here a virtual reality is more than just a gimmick the monk by the sea was extensively restored between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen seven layers of vanished had to be removed the dark and paint layer had obscured the image is true colors and it became apparent the casbah darvish friedrich hadn't originally designed the picture quite so radically but actually rather conventiona