one of the copies of the world-famous joconda was in the prada museum in madrid for many years; there was no interest in it because there were hundreds of copies of the mona lisa. until the canvas was touched restorers. in 2012, it turned out that a dull black background appeared on the canvas no earlier than in 1750 and hid a foggy landscape, just like that can be seen on the original, art critics came to the conclusion that a copy from prada of his students while the master himself was writing the original the secrets of what other world masterpieces the restorers managed to reveal, we will definitely tell you today in science addiction. my name is ekaterina beretskaya. hello. in the next half hour, i propose through the prism science to touch great art. stay with us and you will find out. a forced measure or method of prevention, when the picture requires restoration, duplicate, clean , rewrite. what restoration work is carried out by the masters of the national art and how science and the laboratories in the museum help them look into them very soon. translated from the latin rest

, he goes to madrid and works at prada and there are letters where he writes that he does not allow him to get very close, he was annoyed that the curators of the museumsim away from the picture is impossible in detail, as he wanted in detail to consider, and the canvas was accompanied by kustodiev on his trip. a young wife and a newborn son bed, literally filled with radiance emanating from them, the russian masters did not have an internship plan, speaking in modern language. of course they went to the museum. but what's next is rather academic rather conservative art, which is just the same and does not satisfy. our russian pensioners of the academy of arts then they go to look for workshops in which something new is really going on, they pass on each other the addresses of observation. here is the main luggage that they brought back to their homeland at an exhibition in a separate room. actual european artists of that time to see them in russia was almost impossible. it's like this. in general, we are called a swift, and ours modestly write looked. oh, i can do it, but it doesn't work. and why does a person turn out to be one on one with another li

museum quality exhibition not typically seen in auction houses. the personal belongings of fashion trailblazerand icon andre leon talley. over the decades, talley collected the biggest of high-end items from pradathat's what i was thinking, the chanel touch. >> he loved chanel. >> he loved chanel. he loved louis vuitton. he loved mark jacobs. i cannot tell you how much i felt his presence. >> i thought this would be a sad experience looking at all of his items left behind but this is like -- it's like celebratory. isn't it? >> yes. >> reporter: the collection, those elaborate caftans, ornate jewelry and enormous pieces of luggage revealing a larger than life man whose persona loomed large in the fashion world this is assic andre. i have to come straight to this. now, that's a bag. >> a big bag. >> i can fit into this bag. >> reporter: he studied french literature in college was the first black creative director at "vogue" magazine where power figure heads later anna wintour would mole his career. >> andre was creative.ftans.- when he -- as time went on and his body changed, he just went right with it and just created fashion for that body. >> reporter: but more than anything, andre leon talley