Microbial Degradation of Paintings

“… l’alliance possible et desiderable de la Science et de l’Art… ,” Louis Pasteur, when he was nominated to the first chair in physical chemistry at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1940 four young men discovered the Lascaux Cave in the Dordogne region of France. The cave

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