Digital cameras save artworks. Digital imaging is revolutionising the way classical works of art are being preserved for future generations. [BBC News: sci/tech]

If they can start doing high rez 3d scans as well, we can then truly have reproductions of the paintings. Ideally I'd like to see MRIs or some other form of deep scan of the painings so that we can know the actual composition of how the artist worked, in terms of materials and  layering of media.

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