See Artnet's top 10 art discoveries of 2016

ARTNET NEWS
By Henri Neuendorf

French painting expert Eric Turquin announcing the authentication of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Judith Beheading Holofernes. Photo: PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/Getty Images.

Science and technological advances combined with new insights and scholarly research have resulted in some amazing art-related discoveries in 2016. Here, artnet News presents 10 of the most unbelievable and unexpected finds of the year: (1) Hieronymus Bosch, The Temptation of St. Anthony; (2) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Judith Beheading Holofernes; (3) Mino da Fiesole’s Portrait of a Young Woman; (4) Paul Gauguin, Fleurs D’Ete Dans Une Goblet; (5) The newly-discovered YInMn blue; (6) Albrecht Dürer engraving; (7) Jacob Jordaens’ Mileager and Atalanta; (8) missing piece of legendary René Magritte canvas; (9) ‘lost city’ thought to be first ancient Egyptian capital; (10) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Szene im Café. [link]

Hieronymus Bosch, The Temptation of St. Anthony. Photo: Rik Klein Gotink/Image processing by Robert G. Erdmann for the Bosch Research and Conservation Project.

The engraving by Albrecht Dürer is from 1520. Courtesy of Staatsgalerie Stuttgart