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'Extraordinary discovery' made in old painting

New technology has helped experts make an "extraordinary discovery hidden beneath" an old painting. Entitled "Stourhead in its Infancy", the 18th Century oil painting was "long believed to be the ...
The Economist

Old oil paintings are suffering from chemical “acne”

WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle’s “Composition 1952” for display in 2006, she ...