Washington, DC, April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Gallery of Art announced today that Lena Stringari will join the museum as chief of conservation. Stringari comes to the National ...

Scientists and historians at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., have deduced that a painting attributed to Johannes Vermeer, one of four in the museum’s collection, wasn’t painted by the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Sixteen paintings by American artist Gilbert Stuart of some of the nation’s founding fathers and other figures are showing their true colors for the first time in decades through a ...

The most dramatic change as conservators demonstrate the process comes as the aged varnish is removed. The yellow layer has hidden Stuart s brushwork for decades since they came to the National ...