Reviving Antiquity: Restoring Hubert Robert's Views of Ancient Ruins September 16, 2009

This summer, one of the museum's main level galleries will become a painting conservation lab, where conservator Mark Bockrath of Philadelphia will clean and restore three large 18th-century landscapes by the French painter Hubert Robert (1733-1808). The three paintings -- 'The Obelisk,' 'The Ruin' and 'Fantastic View of Tivoli' -- are part of four landscapes commissioned during the 1780s by unknown Russian clients.