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Danish Golden Age Painters Used Beer Leftovers to Prep Their Canvases
Researchers examined ten paintings—including Two Russian Ships of the Line Saluting (1827) by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg—and found that seven included traces of proteins associated with brewing beer. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When researchers …