Masterpieces like The Mona Lisa or The Coronation of Napoleon are admired by tens of thousands of visitors to the Louvre each day. Yet, deep within the Paris museum’s vaults lie thousands more works ...

A picture is usually worth a thousand words, but this painting restoration is only worth five: What the hell is this? An art collector in Valencia, Spain reportedly hired a furniture restorer to come ...

Recently we showed you what happened when very old, yellowing varnish was removed from a 17th century painting. In just a few seconds a drab, discolored portrait was transformed into a vibrant work of ...

In spotless laboratories, well locked and hidden away in the basements of the world’s great museums, hundreds of men in white smocks are working feverishly, day in and day out, at “restoring” art ...

A landmark restoration of Caravaggio’s final painting has uncovered hidden details long lost beneath layers of damage—raising new questions about what we thought we knew about The Martyrdom of St.

FLORENCE, Italy — Four years ago, a Florentine restorer happened upon a painting fragment peeking out of an envelope stored in a depository at the city’s famed museum, the Uffizi Gallery. It depicted ...

The conservation of old paintings is the latest slow and painstaking process that might soon be sped up by artificial intelligence. A mechanical engineering student at MIT has just debuted a ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A damaged Georgia O’Keeffe painting is back on display after conservators spent 1,250 hours and $145,000 restoring it. Dale Kronkright, head of conservation at the Georgia ...

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A private art collector's copy of "The Immaculate Conception of El Escorial" by Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was disfigured after a furniture restorer's efforts to clean the painting ...