When I look for pieces to restore, I always look for real wood. Wood veneers won't accept any sort of varnish or paint stripper. My goal was to get the dark brown-orange finish off of the bulk of ...

Art expert and host of the BBC One show Fake or Fortune Philip Mould shared the footage with his followers, revealing the careful removal of the protective varnish from the old painting ...

As we’ve learned from [Julian]’s previous videos, the problem with an old dirty painting is rarely the paining itself, it’s the varnish that has been applied to it. These varnishes ...

But English Heritage conservators changed their minds after scraping thick yellow varnish off the painting. Extensive tests showed it did in fact originate from Botticelli's 15th Century workshop ...