VERONESE DAMAGE

After inspecting how the Louvre has cleaned a prominent painting by Italian master Veronese, a French conservation expert despairs: “Clothes that were originally red were now green. The whole spatial and wonderful chromatic harmony is distorted. When you look at the painting . . . black, red and blue colors seem to be floating among other colors like pieces of a broken puzzle. The light is now a cold, artificial, modern one.” – The Times (UK)