Conservators are painstakingly restoring eight angels painted centuries ago on the walls of the Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts. The angels are nearly 300 years old and are part of the church's rich history.
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“For much of the church’s history, people who were coming here to the church would have seen those angels, would have seen the colorful interior,” said Emily Spence, the associate director of education at Old North Illuminated, which operates the church as a historic site. Corrine Long, a painting conservator who works with Pocobene, said one of the challenges was removing seven layers of paint without damaging the angels. The team first applied a solvent gel to soften the layers of paint and then manually removed it with a plastic scraper. After that, they cleaned the angels with cotton swabs before retouching to remove any signs of damage.“They all have their own character — they’re not copies,” Pocobene, who has his own studio in Lawrence, Massachusetts, said.
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