This 1681 Portrait of King Charles II of Spain
Not long ago here on History Collection, we had a post about Hidden Messages in Famous Works of Art. This is not exactly a message, but rather a painting-within-a-painting. The Museo del Prado Tweeted this image with the following caption, “This portrait of Charles II as an adult painted by Carreño de Miranda in 1681 hides another work: Carreño reused a canvas on which he had painted a portrait of the youngest king years before and in the same room, the Hall of Mirrors of the Real Alcázar in Madrid.” It’s interesting that they did this. Nowadays, people love to save pictures of you from your childhood. But in this instance, the past was completely painted over once King Charles II became an adult.