It wasn’t just the 45,000 viewers who were attracted to the artwork.
After an exhibition, “From Van Dyck to Bellotto,” at Brussels’s Palais des Beaux-Arts was taken down, the wooden frames around some of the paintings were found to be infested with small yet destructive beetles. Now, 130 of the works have been placed in quarantine. Experts are investigating the extent of the damage, since the bugs may have laid eggs in the paintings, which were on loan from museums and galleries in Italy, Austria, Spain, France, and Belgium.
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