{"id":16684,"date":"2017-03-29T08:07:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=16684"},"modified":"2017-03-29T08:07:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:07:32","slug":"is-this-the-future-of-paintings-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2017\/03\/29\/is-this-the-future-of-paintings-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the future of paintings restoration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story in The Wall Street Journal about the quest of David Steel, Curator of European Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, to  locate a missing panel of Francescuccio Ghissi\u2019s \u201c St. John Altarpiece\u201d so that he could exhibit the complete altarpiece (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-a-museum-curator-solved-a-600-year-old-mystery-1490027064\">How an Art Curator Solved a 600-Year-Old-Mystery<\/a>\u201d ,  by Jessica Barrow Dawson), when he was unable to find it, he turned to mathematician Ingrid Daubechies and conservator Charlotte Caspers to reconstruct it. Daubechies used computer-based mathematical algorithms to figure out the crack patterns and fading that were to be incorporated into the new panel, and used reverse algorithms to produce images of the other eight panels as they might have looked when newly painted. It\u2019s quicker and less costly to restore paintings using algorithms. Might this be the future of paintings restoration?       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story in The Wall Street Journal about the quest of David Steel, Curator of European Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, to locate a missing panel of Francescuccio Ghissi\u2019s \u201c St. John Altarpiece\u201d so that he could exhibit the complete altarpiece (\u201cHow an Art Curator Solved a 600-Year-Old-Mystery\u201d , by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2017\/03\/29\/is-this-the-future-of-paintings-restoration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is this the future of paintings restoration?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}