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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Jim Huffman considered for two weeks whether to put down $900 for a painting he liked at a Lexington antique store. The London, Ky., ophthalmologist and amateur art collector eventually decided to ...

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Typically, the best thing you can do to a newly acquired wooden antique is to have any structural issues fixed up by an expert and then let it be in all its weathered, storied glory. But in other ...

Antiques Roadshow visited Kenilworth Castle in the Midlands for a recent episode of the BBC show. Throughout the programme experts valued a wide range of items, but it was an oil painting that caught ...

The Italian Renaissance painter Ludovico Mazzolino was known for small, jewel-like religious paintings; devotional objects for aristocratic patrons. Very occasionally towards the end of his career, ...

The world of antique furniture and the world of hackers rarely coincide, and perhaps the allure of the latest tech is greater for most of us than that of a Chipendale cabinet. But there are times when ...

In 2012, an incident occurred in Spain when a mural of Jesus in a 19th-century church was ruined during restoration efforts. An 80-year-old woman from the town of Borja in the province of Zaragoza ...