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The original paint was a sprayed-on lacquer and would be difficult to replicate. What can I do?

With a careful hand, the artist reveals both the historic house’s true colors and his ownOriginally Appeared on <a ...

Eight restorers are working on the piece in a specially designed glass chamber for the operation's first stage.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is restoring “The Night Watch,” a large oil painting by the 17th-century master. Visitors have ...

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The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...

Credit: Rijksmuseum/Henk Wildschut/Cover Images Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, one of the world’s most famous paintings, is on ...

John Currin's art blends satire, hyperrealism, and classical techniques, drawing from varied sources to create a dialogue between the unusual and the beautiful. His work merges elements of Old Master ...

The varnish, applied during a 1975-76 restoration ... Made for Amsterdam's Arquebusiers Guild Hall, Rembrandt van Rijn's 1642 ...

On Tuesday, a team of eight restorers started removing the varnish from the painting following years of high-tech research.