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The mobile scanner at work on a test wall. A software system reveals the structure of the concealed paintings. (Credit: Copyright Fraunhofer IWS) ScienceDaily (May 6, 2010) — Painted-over murals were thought to be irretrievably lost because conventional methods are seldom suitable to rendering the hidden works visible without causing damage. Research scientists now aim [...]

The collection includes 1905 work Arbres a Collioure, by Andre Derain. A collection of paintings by artists including Picasso, Cezanne and Derain, which lay undiscovered in a vault for 40 years, will be sold in June. Some 141 paintings belonging to dealer Ambroise Vollard were put in a French bank following his death in 1939 [...]

Best-case scenario: A dog runs into the frame just as you snap the shutter. Worst-case: You have a really bad breakup. But one way or another, you're eventually going to want to remove something or someone from a digital photo. Even if you're well versed in Photoshop, you may either not possess quite the skills [...]

Gemini North image of the planetary nebula M97, also known as the Owl Nebula, imaged by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) as part of a Canadian contest for high school students. The approximately 6,000 year-old nebula is located about 2,600 light-years away, and has a diameter of about three light-years across. It is located in [...]

IT IS one of the most provocative suggestions in art history: did some Renaissance artists use lenses or mirrors to help them paint more accurately? Analysis of a 16th-century artwork dubbed a "Rosetta stone" for optical techniques suggests they did. Can you guess our secret? (Image: Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia/The Bridgeman Art Library) 1 more [...]

A series of drawings which Michelangelo made for a younger man he is thought to have fallen in love with, have gone on display at London's Courtauld Gallery. The Dream is considered one of the finest of all Renaissance drawings. The exhibition is built around his masterpiece The Dream (Il Sogno), bequeathed to the gallery [...]

Ansel Adams was the poet of the gray spectrum, the man who dipped the American sublime into the inkpot of black-and-white photography and by that means made it new again. So persuasive were his methods that because of him we tend to think of the national parks the way we think of the Great Depression, [...]

ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — If you don’t have the time to travel to Florence, you can still see Michelangelo’s statue of David on the Internet, revolving in true-to-life 3D around its own axis. Virtual archive for works of art from all over the world: Objects will be reproduced three-dimensionally. The visible exhibits come from [...]

A new Leonardo da Vinci portrait may have been discovered after a fingerprint found on it seemed similar to another discovered on his work. The work could date back to the late 15th Century. A Paris laboratory found the fingerprint is "highly comparable" to one on a da Vinci work in the Vatican. Antiques Trade [...]

One late night in 2007, Rogelio Bernal Andreo and his wife were driving down Highway 1 along California’s Lost Coast, when his wife opened the moon roof. What spread out above them looked nothing like the mauve sky near their Sunnyvale home. “It was like the Milky Way was in front of us,” said Andreo, [...]