interview Getty conservator Ulrich Birkmaier Artemisia Gentileschi Hercules and Omphale

Getty’s senior conservator of paintings Ulrich Birkmaier sorts through glass, debris, and paint chips found in the back of the painting’s canvas embedded by the 2020 explosion in Beirut

A pair of hands sorts through a small pile of shattered glass and debris collected from the blast that damaged the painting.

interview Getty conservator Ulrich Birkmaier Artemisia Gentileschi Hercules and Omphale