The artworks, part of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, help shed light on a traditional ...

Sanday's conservators did not intend to restore areas where painted images had flaked or eroded away, but in some cases they needed to rebuild and prepare sections of walls for painting or line ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Milan Mako is a conservator at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. He shows us how he restores an oil painting from the 1800s. This includes looking at it under ...

Inside, centered on an orange wall, is a 6-by-3-foot painting of the Hindu god Krishna in the form of Shrinathji, a 7-year-old child. The blue-skinned figure, draped in necklaces and garlands ...