A large vacuum absorbs hazardous chemicals used to restore and conserve paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Large bay windows also flood in northern light, considered the most stable and ...
Art restoration combines art history, chemistry, and studio art. Restoring a painting can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. Although it can be meticulous, knowledge of proper techniques ...
The 17th-century portrait Las Meninas (1656), or “The Maids of Honor,” is universally regarded as Diego Velázquez’s magnum opus, and perhaps the single greatest existing expression of classical ...
William Donnelly, associate preventive conservator at Winterthur Museum, had a question for his student, Binh-An Nguyen: Why had his family’s gravestones become so degraded—some kind of growth ...