Reconstructing Van Gogh, Monet, And Other ‘Lost’ (Or Destroyed) Masterpieces

A group called Factum Arte is using high-quality 3D scanners to bring works of art that have been damaged or partially lost back to life. And it has some intense results: “It’s absolutely breathtaking. … I think Monet would believe it was his painting.” Um, time for an update to the classic Walter Benjamin essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”?