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 ...

Art restoration: The kind of art that, if done well, doesn’t draw attention to itself. When art restoration is in the news, ...

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 ...

After a long-forgotten painting of Hercules and Omphale was punctured by glass and coated in debris during the 2020 explosion in Beirut, the monumental oil-on-canvas, painstakingly restored over more ...

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 ...

Wow. This completely misrepresents the process of art restoration today. Reversibility is always the end goal. C’mon Ars. As for this process…It’s really just replacing the very final step of the long ...

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 ...

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 ...

He said: “This painting is almost 600 years old and has gone through conservation many times. “In this case, there was a fair amount of overpainting, all of which has to be cleaned off to see what’s ...