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 ...

A "devil-like figure" featured in a painting by a renowned artist that's more than 230 years old has been rediscovered after a recent restoration. The discovery came as a result of conservation work ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sneak a peek at how a masterpiece is restored twice a week in April at the Timken Museum of Art in Balboa Park. Museum attendees may observe from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Thursdays and from ...

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 ...

As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the paintings of long-dead masters. By Adam Nossiter Marco Grassi, a ...

A “devil-like figure” featured in a painting by a renowned artist that’s more than 230 years old has been rediscovered after a recent restoration. The discovery came as a result of conservation work ...

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 ...