Museum’s restoration lifts “grey veil” from final commission by the Renaissance artist Moretto da Brescia

Explorers will be paid for image rights and receive share of entrance fees

Charles Le Brun project at Vaux-le-Vicomte, halted by a financial scandal at Louis XIV’s court, will be completed with video projection

Museums have since devoted sizeable resources

The release of a pre-conservation image of Leonardo’s $450m Salvator Mundi reignites debate over the transparency of conservators’ interventions

Opening mega museums is not the only way to exercise soft power in the region

Maastricht is famous for its tough vetting procedures, but what is it really like to be on the fair’s expert team?

A team of international specialists are studying Girl with a Pearl Earring for two weeks straight

The British Museum has the space and facilities to restore the embroidery, which is returning to England for first time in 940 years

Researchers use terahertz scanning to understand artist’s methods

Getty show explores the versatility of the medium

Grassroots activists are leading a campaign to preserve the country’s unique, but sadly neglected, built heritage

Scroll hidden in animal mummy may lead to the discovery of more old texts

The project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, will concentrate on time-based media, digital and performance art

Current owner of the collector William Stern’s former home wants to uncover work that was painted over when the Menil Collection sold the property

Corpse is identified as Anna Catharina Bischoff, who is great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of British foreign secretary

Chinese collector may step in to save the barn, after Arts Council rejects funding bid

New York institutions are accessing equipment and expertise thanks to $2m, six-year grant

Multiple lawsuits launched in the wake of Trump’s decision to shrink national parks in Utah

First-ever major restoration for the artist’s only work in a Russian museum

The restored Virgin and Child in Glory at the Walker Art Gallery reveals Spanish master's "exquisite skills"

The treatment of Frankfurt’s Liebieghaus museum's fragile alabaster ensemble could pave the way for future loans

Dismantlement and reconstruction

The museum aims to open the cleaning process to the public, with a conservator on hand to answer questions

The Italian government’s latest decision is in hock to the port’s own interests

Thomas Campbell posted an image of the Salvator Mundi before conservation, triggering a row with its former co-owner Robert Simon and Christie’s Loic Gouzer

Curators call on St Petersburg prosecutor to investigate "criminal expropriation" of the artefact

How the New York museum is leading the way in conserving half a millennium of style

Two years of investigation preceded the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition of highlights from the Johnson Collection