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In spotless laboratories, well locked and hidden away in the basements of the world’s great museums, hundreds of men in white smocks are working feverishly, day in and day out, at “restoring” art ...

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 private art collector's copy of "The Immaculate Conception of El Escorial" by Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was disfigured after a furniture restorer's efforts to clean the painting ...

A picture is usually worth a thousand words, but this painting restoration is only worth five: What the hell is this? An art collector in Valencia, Spain reportedly hired a furniture restorer to come ...

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 ...

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A landmark restoration of Caravaggio’s final painting has uncovered hidden details long lost beneath layers of damage—raising new questions about what we thought we knew about The Martyrdom of St.

Artworks deteriorate over time, so restoration is necessary to preserve them for future generations. However, there have been many cases of failed restorations of artworks, leading to complaints that ...