Conservation
Hi, Biennale Crowd: did you know Venice is dying for these six reasons?
What you can do despite too many cruise ships, rising sea level and with no one in charge
Napoléon drowned, beheaded and restored
Treatment of emperor’s statue may resolve conflicting accounts of its history
Backlash over claim that Egyptian geese were cooked up in 1800s
Museum director and former antiquities minister refute Italian archaeologist’s theory
Pompeian frescoes cured with antibiotics
Bacteria removed from Villa of the Mysteries frieze during restoration
Grand designs on Soane’s London home
Visitors can see the architect’s newly restored living quarters for the first time in 160 years
Leonardo’s muse keeps her secrets as portrait returns to Milan
Thinning the painting’s varnish reveals La Belle Ferronnière's fine features, but French experts unable to confirm her identity
Ancestral home of the last Knight of Glin for sale
Restored with passion by Desmond FitzGerald, co-founder of the Irish Georgian society, it is on the market at €6.5m, contents extra
Research puts Goya’s witches in right order
"Feat in forensics” finally establishes correct sequence of artist's private album
Armenian churches in Turkey and Cyprus win awards for conservation and community reconciliation
Winners of Europa Nostra prize include Stonehenge visitor centre and virtual museum of St Mark's in Venice
Cultural heritage at heart of propaganda battle in Iraq
Following vandalism at Mosul museum and Nergal Gate, Iraqi government says IS has destroyed ancient sites at Nimrud, Hatra and Khorsabad
Vatican begins final work on Raphael rooms
The work may make it possible to identify which parts of the frescoes were painted by Giulio Romano, Raphael’s most trusted apprentice
Reims repairs its war damage, a century on
Restoration of the cathedral is due to be completed in 2015
Fixing - or not fixing - the works in Berlin's sculpture collections damaged in 1945
Should they be left as a reminder of a dark past or restored to reflect the artists’ intentions?
Painting due to be removed from museum wins reprieve after tests prove it is a genuine Old Master
Not fake, but ‘tarted up’
Tate finds 370-year-old bullet hole in Charles I statue
The sculpture was famously attacked by Parliamentarians shortly after the outbreak of the English Civil War
Syrian war’s devastating toll on antiquities
Unesco places major national heritage sites on danger list as ground combat, air strikes and looting reduce ancient settlements to rubble
Conservators save Burden’s war from brink
Breathing new life into the installation that the American artist wanted to destroy
Books: Raphael—all things to all ages
Three new monographs show the artist is still the equal of Leonardo and Michelangelo, if not so popular
Why art conservation needs to be left to the experts
A Spanish grandmother’s handiwork recently made headlines, but Ajax and rainstorms have contributed to other botched treatments by amateurs
Restored 18th century parlour from Connecticut open for public viewing at Yale University Art Gallery
Yale prepares for the 2012 installation of its decorative arts galleries by reconstructing a period room
Land Art: here today, gone tomorrow?
Major installations in the American West by artists such as Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer could soon disappear
High-tech study could give new life to Moore’s Arch
Development in conservation of sculpture
The Cambodian World Heritage site, Angkor Wat, is finally being restored
An ongoing effort to restore the ancient site has international teams working altogether but using radically different approaches, resulting in unexpected order
MoMA and Guggenheim join forces for Reinhardt restoration
The conservation departments of both museums are collaborating on the study, analysis, and treatment of a badly damaged painting
Bruegel-Rubens masterpiece goes on the block to save historic English houses
"Mars and Venus" will pay for essential repairs
Battle to save Joseph Beuys wallcovering at Landesmuseum
Debate over whether it constitutes part of the original “Block Beuys” installation
The Parthenon Marbles and cultural politics: What are we really all talking about?
At a major conference held on 30 November and 1 December 1999, British Museum, Greek and international scholars discussed the nature of any damage to the Marbles in the hushed-up cleaning of the 1930s. Mary Beard puts the discussions in context and tells how, ever since their acquisition in 1816 by Lord Elgin, the Marbles have aroused fierce debate. Why?