Volume 41, Number 16 · October 6, 1994
Madonna in Distress
By Jack Flam
The controversy generated by the recent cleaning of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel has brought the technical methods and aesthetic judgments of painting conservators under unprecedented scrutiny. It has also made art historians acutely aware of how different the works they study today look from when they were made; the decisions involved in restoration entail not only a 'scientific' undertaking but also a rather subjective form of editing.
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