We brought a goddess back to life. "Diana and Her Nymphs on the Hunt" went on display at the Getty for the very first time in the Villa's current exhibition "Rubens: Picturing Antiquity." Diana, made by Peter Paul Rubens's assistants according to his design, was one of J. Paul Getty's favorite paintings and he donated it to the Getty Museum in 1971. When preparations began for the Rubens exhibition, Diana came out of storage. But the painting needed conservation treatment before going on view. Graduate intern Hsiao-Hsuan Chao spent a year studying Diana and removing the degraded varnish layers as well as old retouchings that were applied before the painting joined the collection. Chao also inpainted areas where paint loss had occurred and helped revarnish the work. The result is a more radiant composition that conveys Rubens's intended effect: Diana, goddess of animals and the hunt, leaps off the canvas, and the tranquil landscape recedes into the distance. Tap the #LinkInBio to ...