It’s thanks to the conservators and their innovations

According to J.S. Marcus writing in The Wall Street Journal issue of March 15-16, 2014 (“Looking Up at Veronese’s Grandeur”), after years of taking a back seat to Titian and Tintoretto because his works are so large as to be extremely difficult to transport, Paolo Veronese will have an exhibit at the National Gallery London from March – June 2014. Marcus quotes Xavier Salomon, the exhibit’s curator as saying that one important reason the show can be mounted today is “we now know how those large paintings can be preserved properly during transportation.” What he is really saying is “thank you conservators”.