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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Old Masters, New Tricks | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Old Masters, New Tricks | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Old Masters, New Tricks | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

The headline over a recent editorial in the New York Times proclaimed, THE COLD WAR IS OVER. President Bush has rightly taken issue with that statement. But as the "spirit of Malta" washes over the West, he may soon find that he is a very lonely member of a virtually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Should the U.S. Help Gorbachev? | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Many observers say he inspired the changes under way in Eastern Europe. Some even say he encouraged them. Most ignore that it was Western ideals, combined with the failure of Communist ideals he still defends and opposition to Soviet domination he represents, which brought millions into the streets. It is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Should the U.S. Help Gorbachev? | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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