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Ruth Leon recommends… Rembrandt: Restoring a Masterpiece

Ruth Leon recommends…  Rembrandt: Restoring a Masterpiece

Look again:   European Paintings—Rembrandt, Restoring a Masterpiece

Here’s another of those ‘behind the scenes at the museum’ videos that I love so much.

This one has curator Adam Eaker  and conservator Dorothy Mahon as they discuss the restoration of Rembrandt’s Artistotle with a Bust of Homerpainted in 1653, and now on view in the renovated and reinstalled European Paintings galleries at The Met, Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800.

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