Restoration

Lacma’s conservators discover 1960s colours in Ottoman interior

Damascene reception room is being restored before making its museum debut in Saudi Arabia in 2016

Napoléon drowned, beheaded and restored

Treatment of emperor’s statue may resolve conflicting accounts of its history

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

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

Bode museum finally lays bare its war-damaged collection

An exhibition in Berlin surveys the ethical implications of restoring damaged art

Reims repairs its war damage, a century on

Restoration of the cathedral is due to be completed in 2015

“Live” restoration of Dalí painting in Rotterdam

The conservation of Dalí’s Landscape with a Girl Skipping will be visible to the public

Tate celebrates return of restored Rothko

The product of 9 months of restoration leaves no traces of graffiti ink

Raphaelarchive

Colour restored to Vatican’s Raphaels

After more than a decade, restoration of the monumental fresco cycle has finally been completed

Leonardo copy undergoes restoration at Musée National de la Renaissance

A little-known copy of Leonardo’s The Last Supper by Marco d’Oggiono will get a thorough clean

Joan Miróarchive

Miró on loan damaged at Tate Modern

The museum forked out £203,000 for repair and depreciation costs

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

Louvre’s Leonardo conservation plan leads to resignation

Fears it will affect the sfumato of the piece are growing

Newsarchive

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

Fondation Beyeler unveils plans to allow observation of Matisse restoration

A conservation studio will be opened to educate the public about the costly process of reconstructing Matisse's Acanthes

Still no plan for Richard Prince’s house

The artist’s fire-damaged Second House environment faces an uncertain future

Battle over Joseph Beuys collection at Moyland Castle

Widow claims artist’s reputation is being damaged

Iraqarchive

Ex-head of Iraq's board of antiquities estimates 10 years of restoration for Babylon

The integrity of the historic site did not factor into US strategy, proven by the construction of an adjacent military base

Hermitage Leonardo bust taken hostage in restorer's cash dispute

The kidnapped statue has now been returned to the museum

Italian collector’s pledge to help save crumbling city of Palermo

Roberto Bilotti has restored an 18th-century palace and plans to open an “art chapel”

Art marketarchive

Installation withdrawn from Huang Yong Ping retrospective due to feud over restoration responsibility and costs, then sold at auction

Institutions are powerless to prevent such abuses, says Walker Art Center deputy director Philippe Vergne

Italyarchive

Italian archaeologists arrive in Iran for citadel of Bam restoration project

The Italian government is giving financial assistance in the 2,000 year-old site's repair, after it was badly affected by an earthquake

Collectorsarchive

Collector Bob Rubin's proves passion for Prouvé in $1 million restoration

The artist’s Maison Tropicale is on show this month at Yale

Russia pledges 120 million rubles to restore warping wooden church

Built without a single nail, the Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour will have to be taken apart in order to save it