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Yvonne Carts-Powell

Laser ablation to preserve great art.

 

Scatterings imageLaser ablation, used to clean part of the angel on the right, worked better than traditional methods, used on the left two angels. The 15th century painting appears on a wall of the Sagrestia Vecchia in Florence, Italy.

Yvonne Carts-Powell

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