Experts use sponges, seaweed, and science to conserve Maxo Vanka's historic murals at St. Nicholas Church, revealing lost ...

How do you conserve an incomparable set of murals that have accumulated more than 80 years’ worth of soot, salt and other ...

How do you conserve an incomparable set of murals that have accumulated more than 80 years’ worth of soot, salt and other ...

The walls and ceiling of the church are covered ... scaffold to provide close-up access to the murals. Cleaning off decades of pollution In the initial days, the conservation team brushed and ...

When the scaffolding came down inside the unassuming hilltop church near Pittsburgh, it revealed a raging storm of biblical proportions.

The walls and ceiling of the church are covered with an acclaimed set of murals painted by the late ... cosmetic sponges and thin cotton swabs to clean surfaces and grooves. Much of the grime ...

a wall paintings conservator overseeing this year’s work. Working on a 32-foot-tall scaffold, art conservator Kate Pirelli works on cleaning a mural by Max Vanka inside St. Nicholas Croatian ...

Puskar) Working on a 32-foot-tall scaffold, art conservator Kate Pirelli works on cleaning ... a section of murals at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church near Pittsburgh. The walls and ceiling ...