Art restoration takes steady hands and a discerning eye. For centuries, conservators have restored paintings by identifying areas needing repair, then mixing an exact shade to fill in one area at a ...

An effervescent hunt scene by Rubens is set to spring into life, thanks to experts at Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie ...

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 ...

Damaged paintings can now be restored 66 times faster than traditional methods - thanks to state-of-the-art robot technology. An AI-generated “mask” can do in a matter of minutes what used to take ...

ANTWERP, Belgium — When an iconic painting is in need of restoration, it is usually taken to a studio to be worked on in seclusion. In the case of a massive Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece in the artist ...

More than 100 art pieces in northeastern Japan damaged by the massive tsunami disaster nearly 15 years ago have been brought ...

The Fairport Harbor Public Library has been awarded a $4,114 LSTA Conservation and Preservation Grant from the State Library of Ohio. The grant will enable the restoration of two paintings by Fairport ...

Even small amounts of water can lead to rapid formation of metal soap crystals in historical oil paintings. Researchers at the University of Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum warn in particular against ...

Fisk Galleries Director and Curator Jamaal Sheats and Art Conservator Ian McClure talked about teaching the students how to conserve historical paintings from Fisk’s art collection. Fisk University is ...

An intrinsic property of paintings, that makes them both wonderful and very annoying, is the fact that they are physical objects. Sometimes they survive across the ages as amazing artifacts of their ...

Scans of the painting during various stages in its restoration. At left is the damaged piece, with the middle panel showing a map of the different kinds of damage present; green lines show full splits ...

“Restoring a painting is fun, and it’s great to sit down and fill in things and have a nice evening. “But that’s a very slow process.” For the new study, Kachkine developed a method to physically ...