Picasso's "Guernica" Undergoes Medical Check At the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid
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.
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....