The power of conservation

Following an eighteen-month conservation and research project generously supported by the Bank of America Art Conservation Project, Lavinia Fontana’s celebrated painting The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon (1599) has returned to the National Gallery of Ireland’s walls. This free display celebrates the transformative conservation process, and includes an exciting new acquisition.

The Bank of America Art Conservation Project provides grants to nonprofit museums to conserve historically or culturally significant works of art that are in danger of degeneration, including works that have been designated as national treasures.

Institutions are invited to submit proposals for 2022 conservation grants. Proposals will be accepted until 30 November 2021.