photos show. Workers are still analyzing the rediscovered paintings and restoring the 700-year-old convent, officials said. Aversa is a small city on the outskirts of Naples and a roughly 150-mile ...

Photo: Via Getty Images Driving ... "However, he also embraced the process of painting one work over another, resisting whitewashing old images in favour of beginning a new figure directly on ...

The painting is then cleaned in wider swaths, and the difference between an old, yellowing varnish and the original painting becomes clearer. "I save the face for last in this instance ...

A ubiquitous presence in New York’s art world, he also existed outside it, using 19th-century techniques to create ethereal, haunting images. By Clay Risen Hal Hirshorn, an artist known for his ...