interview Getty conservator Ulrich Birkmaier Artemisia Gentileschi Hercules and Omphale

Getty’s senior conservator of paintings Ulrich Birkmaier poses with the nearly fully restored Hercules and Omphale by Artemisia Gentileschi, from Sursock Palace Collections

A conservator Ulrich Birkmaier stands beside Artemisia Gentileschi’s large damaged painting Hercules and Omphale mounted on a wheeled easel in a conservation studio holding a detached paint fragment.

interview Getty conservator Ulrich Birkmaier Artemisia Gentileschi Hercules and Omphale