The government has this year cut back a funding lifeline for listed churches, putting historic buildings and the art they house at risk

One of the most famous sites in Barcelona has been given a €3.5m makeover

The new initiative aims to stabilise fragile media and could serve as a model for other artists

Developed by New York University and the University of Akron, with grant funding from Getty, the new adhesive addresses sustainability and safety issues, and can be easily shipped in multiple forms

The Hispanic Society Museum & Library has been awarded a grant to conserve a 15th-century Book of Hours

Research on ‘Wise and Foolish Virgins’, which is going back on display at the National Trust’s Upton House in Warwickshire, has revealed alterations made by the Venetian artist and others over time

Conservators at The Mauritshuis gallery say famous paintings may have been made by the Dutch Old Master’s students or studio assistants

The lowdown on the Japanese collective teamLab’s new immersive art space, plus two artists discuss their London show exploring languages and stigma in Deaf and hearing cultures, and a chat about a Vermeer dated with the help of pollution

The painting, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, from around 1565, had been enlarged in the 18th century, work the Getty’s conservators had to painstakingly undo

Pollution particles found in Young Woman seated at a Virginal, owned by the Rembrandt collector Thomas Kaplan, are helping to date the work, which only publicly surfaced at auction in 2004

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