Masterpieces like The Mona Lisa or The Coronation of Napoleon are admired by tens of thousands of visitors to the Louvre each day. Yet, deep within the Paris museum’s vaults lie thousands more works ...

Art restoration: The kind of art that, if done well, doesn’t draw attention to itself. When art restoration is in the news, ...

Watching paint dry is suddenly en vogue. Paris’s Musée d’Orsay’s surprise hit this season is a look at the ongoing restoration of Gustave Courbet’s “Un Enterrement à Ornans” (A Burial at Ornans). It ...

In an era of profound technological advancements, the intersection of art and artificial intelligence (AI) is creating ripples in the art world. AI has now demonstrated its abilities in restoring lost ...

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 ...

Close-up of a painting being cleaned by a professional conservator. Last year a Spanish 17th-century Baroque painting was disfigured after the art restoration was handed to a furniture restorer, ...