Traditionally, checking for damage was a manual job, but a combination of diagnostic technologies used in the restoration of the Brancacci Chapel offers much greater precision ...

In the ancient refectory of the Franciscan monastery (now the museum) attached to the church of Santa Croce in Florence, there is a fragment of a Hell fresco (fig. 1) discovered in 1942 behind an ...

Florence, Italy, attracts millions of visitors each year and is well known for its art – art museums and galleries hou ...