Picasso's Guernica Gets Health Check

(AP Photo/Paul White) :: Pablo Picasso's Guernica, depicting the Nazi German bombing of Guernica is seen in Spain's Reina de Sofia museum in Madrid Tuesday July 22, 2008. The diagnosis of the first X-ray taken of Picasso's 20th century's emblematic, anti-war opus carried out by Reina Sofia art museum, shows that "Guernica" has suffered a lot, it needs special care but it's health is not in any danger. The X-ray of the large-format canvas, 3.5-meter by 7.8-meter (11 ft. by 25 ft.) forms the basis of a series of tests begun over a year ago on the masterpiece, revealing "its makeup, the colors and the damage it has suffered," Reina Sofia director Manuel Borja-Villel told The Associated Press in an interview this week.
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