The digital restitution of the fresco blends art with science ... “The ultimate goal of the research is a new digital restoration in natural dimensions based on new scientific data, allowing ...

But the museums can do as they like, and most of them favor restoration that includes stringent cleaning. Artists, on the whole, oppose it. Art News recently called for a moratorium on it.

A landmark restoration of Caravaggio’s final painting ... was badly damaged in the past” said Maria Cristina Terzaghi, an art historian and one of the curators of “Caravaggio 2025.” ...