Picasso's "Guernica" Undergoes Medical Check At the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid
Monday, March 5, 2012 at 5:37PM 
A technician works as a camera mounted on a mobile robot-like structure moves across Pablo Picasso's 'Guernica' painting at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. AP Photo/Paul White.It’s always fascinating to see the ways in which increasingly sophisticated technologies enable us to learn more and more about art’s great masterworks--AND take better care of our artistic treasures.
Experts have long been concerned about the health of Picasso's "Guernica," one of the world's most iconic paintings but one which is diagnosed as extremely delicate after a hectic life. A mobile, robot-like structure, which using advanced infrared and ultraviolet photographic technology, is taking thousands of microscopic shots of the painting to allow analysts to penetrate the work like never before and see its real condition. AP Photo/Paul White.
From ArtDaily.org:
Pablo Picasso's "Guernica," one of the world's most iconic paintings, is getting a full health check as it marks its 75th anniversary. A giant robotic machine is taking tens of thousands of microscopic shots of the black-and-white anti-war masterpiece to allow experts to penetrate the work like never before and see its real condition after a hectic life traveling the globe....