Macy Nobles
College
Conservation
Student Voices
In earlier decades, retouching (or “inpainting”) using reversible painting materials would have been employed where compositional elements were missing. Nowadays, the recreation of missing elements can be applied in a digital format without introducing non-original materials to the fragile historic surface of the work of art. Digital restoration also allows for reversibility of any additions, which is a basic tenet of professional art conservation.