The conservation of old paintings is the latest slow and painstaking process that might soon be sped up by artificial intelligence. A mechanical engineering student at MIT has just debuted a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ARNOLDS PARK, Iowa (KUOO) - Two paintings from artist Abbie Gardner are over 100-years-old and about to be cleaned and restored. The paintings illustrate Gardner’s story of survival during the Spirit ...

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 ...

The church and convent of Sant’Antonio al Seggio sits on an intersection of southern Italy’s narrow cobblestone streets. Its arched entrance faces a bench and a handful of foliage. Inside the cozy ...

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 ...