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This painting survived the Beirut explosion. Here’s how conservators restored it

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(CNN) — After a long-forgotten painting of Hercules and Omphale was punctured by glass and coated in debris during the 2020 explosion in Beirut, the monumental oil-on-canvas, painstakingly restored over more than three years, has gone on view at the…

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This painting survived the Beirut explosion. Here’s how conservators restored it

After a long-forgotten painting of Hercules and Omphale was punctured during the 2020 explosion in Beirut, it has been painstakingly restored over more than three years — and is now on show at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

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