Researchers in the US have used a new scanning technique to discover a painting underneath one of Pablo Picasso's great works of art, the Crouching Woman (La Misereuse Accroupie).
日前，美国的研究人员通过使用一种新扫描技术，发现巴勃罗·毕加索的伟大艺术作品《蜷坐的女人》下面还藏着另一幅画。
Underneath the oil painting is a landscape of Barcelona which, it turns out, Picasso used as the basis of his masterpiece.
该油画的下面是巴塞罗那的景观，事实证明，这是毕加索这部杰作的基础。
The new x-ray fluorescence system is cheaper than alternative art scanning systems - and it is portable, making it available to any gallery that wants it.
新的X射线荧光系统比另类艺术扫描系统更便宜，而且便携，可供任何需要的画廊使用。
The Crouching Woman is a painting from Picasso's blue period.
《蜷坐的女人》是毕加索蓝色时期的一幅画作。

What is remarkable is that the landscape painting beneath - probably by a student artist - is turned 90 degrees. The contour of the hills in the background becomes the crouching woman's back.
值得注意的是，该画下面的风景画--可能是一位学生艺术家的作品，并被调转了90度。背景中山丘的轮廓成为了蜷坐的女人的背部。
Kenneth Brummel, a curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, said that he was "excited" when he first learned what lay underneath the Crouching Woman.
位于多伦多的安大略美术馆的馆长肯尼斯·布鲁梅尔表示，当他第一次获悉《蜷坐的女人》这幅作品下隐藏的内容时，他“非常兴奋”。
"It helps to date the painting and it also helps to determine where the painting was made," he told BBC News.
他向BBC新闻透露：“这一发现有助于确认绘画的日期，也有助于确定绘画的地点。”