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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An intrinsic property of paintings, that makes them both wonderful and very annoying, is the fact that they are physical objects. Sometimes they survive across the ages as amazing artifacts of their ...

Fisk Galleries Director and Curator Jamaal Sheats and Art Conservator Ian McClure talked about teaching the students how to conserve historical paintings from Fisk’s art collection. Fisk University is ...

Preserving Lowcountry Heritage with Quality Craftsmanship in Charleston Johns Island, United States - February 21, 2026 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A team of artists are ...

“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 ...