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 ...

When Bill Gedde was a young boy, his parents noticed he had an aptitude for art so they kept paper and colored pencils handy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...