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 ...
This past month at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, we had the great blessing to see two of the holy icons on our iconostasis restored, that of our Lord Jesus Christ and his all-pure mother.
Although AI-based restoration methods can indeed bring new life to damaged paintings, the end result is typically a digital copy of the original painting. By contrast, a new MIT technique applies ...
The first sunbeams of Juneau’s rainy May illuminated an icon of St. Nicholas through the window of the makeshift art studio adjacent to St. Nicholas’s Church. The golden paint on the half-finished ...
In 1910, the banker and prolific art collector J. Pierpont Morgan thought he’d snagged a Giovanni Bellini painting. The tightly packed scene of the Virgin and Child blessing a genuflecting donor had ...
At Frieze Masters this week, Zurich-based Koetser Gallery will have something unusual on display at their booth: an early masterpiece by Rembrandt van Rijn. The restored painting Blind Tobit with the ...
An curved arrow pointing right. Milan Mako is a conservator at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. He shows us how he restores an oil painting from the 1800s. This includes looking at it under a ...
CONCORD, N.H. >> An oil painting by American impressionist Edmund C. Tarbell that was rolled up and forgotten for more than a century has been restored just in time to be included in a large ...