Plans to remove the scaffolding around the fire-damaged cathedral have been put on hold

Precision illumination can draw out a work’s fine details without physical intervention, but some doubt it will ever replace traditional conservation

The story of a collection of 18th-century houses in the East End that have been carefully saved after years of neglect

Spectral CT scans enabled the Dallas Museum of Art to identify unknown elements in the West African piece

Yemeni authorities and World Monuments Fund team up to repair ruined National Museum in Taiz

Second stage of open-access restoration of Van Eyck brothers’ masterpiece strips away 16th-century overpainting to reveal an abundance of fine details

Conservators discover that the 1566 painting was once bluer and revisit the exposure of the notorious codpieces

The 17th-century work features in a newly opened exhibition on art and food at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge

Building was considered an audacious architectural experiment when it was built in 1797

Millionaire Jonathan Ruffer’s ambitious regeneration of a small former mining town in northern England reveals 1,000 years of history and art

Seven-metre painting offers "canvas proof" that self-taught nun ran an all-female workshop in her convent 450 years ago

Contrast of city's devastated buildings and monuments and some of their remarkable restorations is heartening

Foundation secures funds from Bernard Arnault and François Pinault towards the reconstruction of the cathedral

Splendid royal state apartments of Augustus the Strong are opening to visitors again after a lavish reconstruction

Archaeologists have uncovered more than one million objects on the site

The colossal mural, recently recreated, has returned to its home near Grand Central Station

Ancient Palmyra’s painted lady is digitally reconstructed from traces of pigments for new exhibition at Copenhagen’s Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Researchers at the Landesmuseum in Halle found fragments of paint on the ancient wooden object

Work on the battle-scarred 39 sq. m Papal feast scene, housed in a monastery in Vicenza, should be completed by early 2021

Open letter describes the Garrison Church, damaged in the Second World War, as the symbol of an “unholy alliance” between church, military, and state

Construction had been expected to start a week earlier, but new safety measures for the protection of workers are still being tested

Famous Ancient Egyptian artefact transferred from Luxor tomb to Cairo for delicate conservation work ahead of museum opening

The 16th-century Virgin and Child with Saints is now back on show

The Courtauld Institute of Art has launched an online exhibition which shows a selection of digitised images of the Paris cathedral

State regalia, Russian icons and decorative pistols go on show in exhibition celebrating the hidden craft of conservation

Three huge silk and wool works depicting England’s Midland counties have been painstakingly preserved by the Bodleian Library and the National Trust

The current approach to its restoration fails to take account of the interconnected structural “engineering” of Gothic architecture

The cathedral’s roof, wholly destroyed in the fire, was built of some 1300 great trees

Several charitable and crowdfunding campaigns have launched since the fire

The 19th-century daredevil is most famous for crossing Niagara Falls 17 times—once with a stove on which he cooked an omelette