"It means a lot to me, " Catania said after bringing her photos to the restorers Saturday.
Now he wants only the best planes, overhauled by the best restorers and worked over by the best pilots.
To fake an original patina, restorers sometimes paint a chair with a mix of automotive paint and baby powder, then torch it.
Thomas Jefferson drew the floor plan of the Royal Governor's Palace in 1779, leaving a detailed guide to twentieth-century restorers.
In his two years, Keating had picked up a complementary set of skills working evenings and weekends for art restorers.
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While at the Royal Academy, Hebborn discovered that his skills with pen and brush were still valued by art restorers.
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The Opificio's restorers plan to clean David by applying compresses of distilled water to the marble surface to draw away dirt.
Moreover, he derides as "pseudo science" the battery of chemical and other tests restorers use to determine what art works originally looked like.
Art restorers working in Valencia's cathedral spotted the birds flying through a hole in what turned out to be a false ceiling and were intrigued.
Over the years, other restorers also worked on it.
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Restorers will have to source and apply the same range of materials employed by the artist, which could include glue, synthetic resin and egg, in an attempt to match their work with the original.
Museums, copyists, restorers and dealers watched with interest as the price of Stradivari violins soared, pulling along behind them the violins made by several dozen other Italian craftsmen working between the 16th and 18th centuries.
These premises, plus the hangarlike 11, 000-square-foot workspace Wilner maintains for his brigade of restorers in Long Island City, are a far cry from the walk-up apartment where he first lived and sold frames back in 1983.
Moreover, it is not uncommon for certificates to be issued by self-proclaimed experts or painting restorers who have no real authority or scholarship about the artist, and whose guarantees carry no real weight in the actual market.
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Like so many things in the movie business, parts of the building are not what they seem, said the temple's executive director, Howard Kaplan, as he led a recent tour through the building while restorers hammered and drilled away.
The restorers began shooting digital copies of the damaged prints with high-resolution professional cameras and specialized no-glare lighting Saturday at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, wearing white gloves to handle the images as though they were museum pieces.
Hence the excitement over the recent cleaning of the frescoes in Santa Croce's main chapel and the news that the restorers' scaffolding will remain in place for most of 2013, allowing visitors to see Agnolo Gaddi's late-14th-century fresco cycle, "The Legend of the True Cross, " from the vantage point of the artist himself.
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Finally, Leal indicated that the Office of the City Historian and the National Cultural Heritage Council are willing to support recovery works in the historical centre of Santiago de Cuba, one of the most seriously affected areas, and to send restorers and other highly qualified personnel to help repair museum pieces damaged by the natural disaster.
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