ART

Restoration work in the Soviet Union on Rembrandt’s “Danae”--cut and splashed with acid by a vandal in 1985--has revealed how the Dutch painter reworked the 17th-Century masterpiece, the Tass news agency reported over the weekend. Restoration experts in Leningrad, using X-rays, ultraviolet and infrared light, discovered “that Rembrandt had repainted the gesture of the right hand, changed the appearance of the old woman looking from behind the canopy, that he had painted over Danae’s earrings and beads and that he had altered her facial features several times in the course of the work.”