The patches on the painting are left behind from past restoration jobs. During a restoration job, patches are added to hide or repair rips in the canvas. In this instance, the old patches are ...

Long thought to be a family heirloom, the artwork was actually gifted to the British prime minister in 1942 during the ...

Who ever said art restoration was not physical labor ... As with so many centuries-old paintings, the biggest problems are old varnish and bad previous restorations. “This work was covered ...

Lansing is taking off the old patches and the old strips ... and once the final layer of varnish is on and it dries, the painting restoration is complete. Now there's the whole frame restoration.

Workers are still analyzing the rediscovered paintings and restoring the 700-year-old convent, officials said. Aversa is a small city on the outskirts of Naples and a roughly 150-mile drive ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A mural that’s more than 100 years old is getting ... the subject of the painting very well,” Rector Jonathan Huyck said. “We wanted to restore it so everyone ...

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — 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 ...