conservation

June 3, 2014
From now through 14 September 2014, visitors to The Cleveland Museum of Art can watch conservators clean Caravaggio’s Crucifixion of Saint Andrew , one of the museum’s most prized paintings.

May 11, 2014
Conservators warn that Michelangelo’s David may be at risk of collapse due to micro-fractures found in the figure’s legs and ankles.

April 26, 2014
The cleaning of Bernini’s colonnade at Piazza St. Pietro was completed in time for Easter celebrations after almost five and a half years of work and about 14 million euros to pay for it.

April 5, 2014
Bulgari has offered €1.5m to restore the Spanish Steps in Rome in response to the Italian government’s appeal for help.

April 1, 2014
Thieves steal part of a wall painting showing Apollo and Artemis from a building in Pompeii in mid March.

March 28, 2014
medievalistsnet : Kickstarter campaign to restore St. Francis of Assisi’s home in Rome The Franciscan order hopes to raise $125 000 to restore a convent in Rome which was the home of St. Francis of Assisi.

March 18, 2014
Great Pompeii Project trapped in bureaucratic limbo.

February 8, 2014
After five years in storage , the Riace Bronzes are back on display at the Museo Archeologico di Reggio Calabria.

January 27, 2014
Giovanni Nistri, credited with overseeing the return of the famous Euphronios krater from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to Italy, has been appointed to head the “Great Pompeii Project”—a €105m campaign to preserve the ancient site.

January 16, 2014
Prada will provide financial assistance for the cleaning of Giorgio Vasari’s Last Supper