Judas painting survived Reformation by being turned around

Vibrant medieval panel discovered by Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge hidden under varnish, bat faeces and cobwebsA rare medieval panel showing Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Christ survived the Reformation due to a remarkable instance of 16th-century recycling, researchers in Cambridge have discovered.The brightly painted wooden panel of The Kiss of Judas escaped the systematic destruction of thousands of church paintings because someone turned it around and used the back for another purpose