Restoration

“The Danae,” a restored Rembrandt painting was unveiled under armed guard Monday at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, a dozen years after it was attacked by a man who threw acid on the canvas and slashed it with a knife. Museum director Mikhail Piotrovsky said there was only so much the restorers could do to save the painting, one-fourth of which was damaged in the June 15, 1985, attack. “The former Danae does not exist any longer and we have to reconcile ourselves to the idea. What we have is disfigured, but yet preserved, beauty.”