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Critics scoffed when computers were first enlisted to help restore Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. What could an electronic filing system in some Vatican basement contribute to the painstaking, labor-intensive task of liberating one of the world's largest and most famous paintings from nearly 500...
The Sistine Chapel project was a breakthrough that made believers of the skeptics. Even the Vatican's chief restorer, Gianluigi Colalucci, concedes that future computers will recall in an instant visual information that used to require years of research, including, he adds with a laugh, "the errors we are making...
In the past, technological advances in art have moved from the new world to the old, as when computer techniques developed by NASA to enhance satellite photos were adapted for use on the works of the old masters. That flow has, to some extent, been reversed. With a major portion...
The technology that most fascinates visitors is a method for peering below the surface of a finished artwork and analyzing the various layers of paint it contains. The technique, computerized infrared reflectoscopy, is based on the fact that some pigments that reflect light in the visible range (like cadmium red...
As we would with any other master politician, we should look at Gorbachev's deeds as well as his words. One example is Soviet military power. He still spends 20% of his gross national product on defense, compared with 6% in the U.S. He has modernized all three legs of...