Isack van Ostade’s 1643 oil painting A Village Fair, With a Church Behind was restored for an exhibit in 2015. Restorer Adelaide Izat carefully stripped the old, yellowed varnish from the painting, she noticed that a section in the lower right part of the painting had been painted over at some point. Someone had added bushes to the scene, but why? Read more about this act of censorship at Mental Floss.
Hahahahaha, it's like the little pooper figurines often to be found in European nativity scenes!
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