Traditionally, checking for damage was a manual job, but a combination of diagnostic technologies used in the restoration of the Brancacci Chapel offers much greater precision

New York just closed an exhibition on Sienese art and London is about to open another. But there is also plenty of activity in Siena itself, with a museum renovation and research shedding new light on some famous works

The recently restored painting was presented to the former UK prime minister in 1942 and will be exhibited at Chartwell, his family home

A small casket, said to be a Barniz de Paso work, a largely forgotten form of varnishing, was found at the writer's house in East Sussex

The discovery adds to evidence that preparatory drawings were common practice for Venetian artists as well as for their Florentine peers

Conservators at London's Courtauld Institute used x-ray and infrared images to reveal the previously unseen works

From delicate cleaning to forklifts, the unseen, but crucial, investment often goes unnoticed

UK conservators knit together thousands of pictures taken at Angers cathedral of Saint Maurille paintngs

The Louvre’s conservation of La Maestà sheds new light on the painter’s techniques and influences

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President-Elect Donald Trump were in attendance as President Macron presided over the reopening of the famed Parisian monument

The five-year restoration of the cathedral has cemented the reign of the 19th-century architect, but his methods may not meet modern standards

The northern belfry’s mighty bells—the oldest having survived the French Revolution—have been restored in Normandy and reinstalled in the bell chamber, from where they will once again ring out

The exterior of the famed Milan opera house underwent its first clean-up in 20 years

The Musée d’Orsay hopes the restoration of ‘A Burial at Ornans’—once a Salon scandal, now a pride of the Paris museum—will unlock some of its secrets and reveal the painting to be even bigger and bolder than it appears now

Over four years, and often perched on scaffolding, Axelle Ponsonnet has documented the project's progress behind the scenes

A small army of carpenters combined traditional craftmanship with digital design tools to rebuild the medieval roof frame known as "the forest"

Copper sculptures representing the Twelve Apostles and four New Testament Evangelists were removed for cleaning days before the fire

Curators at Tate and Los Angeles County Museum of Art discuss the ways in which technology has shaped artists’ work, plus a chat about the “mesmerising” Harmonia Macrocosmica

Seven years ago Wentworth Woodhouse was in a sorry state, now it turns over £3.5m a year—but how did this palace-sized property achieve such success?

The Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius, one of the most precious volumes in the Blickling Estate's library, was too fragile to be exhibited

The director of the Museo di Capodimonte plans to restore 21 Renaissance paintings from the collection

Co-developed by Microsoft, the project also identified conservation issues at the world-famous church

Midshipman Charles Hare's account of his escape from a French prison, alongside the outfit he fled in, can be seen from today at the National Maritime Museum

Traces of the statesman’s smoke have been removed from the painting of Charing Cross Bridge, which took Monet 24 years to finish

Last year, the artist put his 2013 installation “WS White Snow” on show in a Los Angeles warehouse in hopes of finding a long-term custodian

One of the work’s two hoop-like pendulums fell off outside the Manhattan offices of the Wall Street Journal publisher

Brighton and Hove Museums hopes to raise at least £10,000 to conserve the Grade I listed building

Labour government cancels redevelopment in spending squeeze—but heritage bodies say conservation solutions are still needed

The undated work, which was during conservation work, is going on display in an exhibition at the Bowes Museum in County Durham

Emergency repairs at 11th-century fortress offer a ray of hope in country where dozens of historic sites are damaged or destroyed