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'Magic mirror': Hidden image revealed in reflection of centuries-old artifact


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'Magic mirror': Hidden image revealed in reflection of centuries-old artifact

The Cincinnati Art Museum's discovery of a 400-year-old 'magic mirror' reveals the image of a Buddha when light is shone on it in a particular way. (Source: Rob Deslongchamps  / Cincinnati Art Museum  via CNN)The Cincinnati Art Museum's discovery of a 400-year-old 'magic mirror' reveals the image of a Buddha when light is shone on it in a particular way. (Source: Rob Deslongchamps / Cincinnati Art Museum via CNN)
 

Amid the thousands of treasures in the Cincinnati Art Museum's East Asian art collection, a small bronze mirror dating back to the 15th or 16th century always seemed rather unremarkable.

 

Last exhibited in 2017, it had spent much of the preceding decades in storage, where it sat on a backroom shelf alongside other objects excluded from public display. But the artifact had a secret hiding in plain sight.

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/magic-mirror-hidden-image-revealed-in-reflection-of-centuries-old-artifact-1.5985516

 

 

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