Conservation Magnified: Building an Immersive Exhibition

Lunchtime Lecture

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  • Ticket Required

Come to the CMA for a quick bite of art history. Every first Tuesday of each month, join curators, conservators, scholars, and other museum staff for 30-minute talks on objects currently on display in the museum galleries. 

Tuesday, September 2, 2025, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Julianna Ly, Associate Conservator of Paintings
Jane Alexander, Chief Digital Information Officer
Location:  Gartner Auditorium
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Free; Ticket Required
a person looking at paintings on display

About The Event

Join Julianna Ly, associate conservator of paintings, and Jane Alexander, chief digital information officer, to learn about the complex conservation treatment and collaborative development of an immersive digital exhibition highlighting Pintoricchio’s 15th-century Italian masterpiece, Virgin and Child. Since opening this August, Pintoricchio Magnified: An Immersive Conservation Experience provides an unprecedented digital exploration of the recent multiyear conservation treatment of one of the most damaged paintings within the collection. 

Discover how conservators uncovered the complex history of the painting—with the Virgin’s robe appearing brown in the early 1990s, dark blue by the 1990s—and the conservation decision-making process used to ethically reconstruct the damaged area in the most recent treatment. To provide visitors with a behind-the-scenes look at this treatment, digital innovation collaborated with conservation to create an immersive exhibition that aims to bring visitors closer to both the artwork and the process behind its preservation. Through accessible, innovative technology, visitors can self-direct and explore the intricate treatment and layered structure of this important painting for the first time, allowing them to amplify and study specific areas, as if viewing the painting through a microscope.  

Sponsors

All education programs at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Education. Principal support is provided by Dieter and Susan M. Kaesgen and Gail C. and Elliott L. Schlang. Major annual support is provided by Brenda and Marshall Brown, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, Medical Mutual of Ohio, the Edwin D. Northrup II Fund, Shurtape Technologies, and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by Gini and Randy Barbato, the M. E. and F. J. Callahan Foundation, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Char and Chuck Fowler, the Giant Eagle Foundation, Linda Harper, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Susan LaPine, Bill and Joyce Litzler, the Logsdon Family Fund for Education, Sarah Nash, Courtney and Michael Novak, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, the Pickering Foundation, William Roj and Mary Lynn Durham, Suzanne Cushwa Rusnak and Jeff Rusnak, Ellen and Lowell Satre, in memory of Dee Schafer, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, the Sally and Larry Sears Fund for Education Endowment, Roy Smith, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Trilling Family Foundation, Jack and Jeanette Walton, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

    The Cleveland Museum of Art is funded in part by residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

    Education programs are supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.