There is a stage in restoration called inpainting — the part where, after you've cleaned a painting back and stabilised it and faced the honest map of everything it has lost, you finally pick up a brush and begin, very carefully, to fill the gaps. Not to deceive. The cardinal rule is that good inpainting is always reversible and never pretends the loss didn't happen; you fill the missing places so the eye can read the whole picture again, but you do it so that any restorer who comes after...

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