Week 10 Seung-Hwan Kim: Cleaning of the frescoes

In Thursday's lecture, professor Howe mentioned about the "Lamentation," with a slide. She said the picture of the fresco is bad because it is taken before cleaning. Here, I found an interestiong article about cleaning of the fresco, Michelangelo's "Last Judgment." During my trip to Rome this summer, a Vatical city tour guide informed that the Japanese broadcasting NHK invested $90 million to cleaning the dust on the masterpiece. Professor Howe's lecture reminds me of the tour guide's comment. "In 1989 Mr. Colalucci and his team completed the extensive cleaning of the ceiling frescoes, which were done 25 years earlier than the "Last Judgment" and depict the biblical narrative of the creation and Adam and Eve. The cleaning stunned art historians and restorers alike for its revelation of the artist's use of stunningly bright colors, but it shocked others who feared the work had been permanently disfigured."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400EED9143EF93AA35757C0A962958260