After a long and complex restoration process undertaken in their studios, the Museo del Prado temporarily presents in hall 56 B one of the seminal works of art from the Renaissance: La Purificación de María(The Purification of Mary), made by Flemish artist Peeter de Kempeneer in 1556. Conceived as a central part of the Mariscal [...]

Cutting-edge laser technology was used to clean more than a century of grime from the statue of the boy who killed Goliath, created by the artist Donatello in the 15th century.
“The David is incomparably more beautiful now than ever before, even though it would seem impossible,” said Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi, director of the Bargello Museum [...]

Are art restorers unwittingly ruining the paintings they’re trying to preserve? The inventor of a powerful new camera – capable of picking out Leonardo’s thumbprint among the brushstrokes – thinks so. Alasdair Palmer meets the man breathing new life into Old Masters.