A story from several years ago was the restoration to their original colors of Renaissance and later artwork, such as Old Masters and in particular the Sistine

A story from several years ago was the restoration to their original colors of Renaissance and later artwork, such as Old Masters and in particular the Sistine Chapel. Many people were confused and disappointed that the artwork had vivid colors, rather than the yellowish patina which they had acquired with age and which viewers had grown up associating with the art - as if, until the impressionists, people lived in a sepia-toned world and had no experience of or interest in colors and their beauty (that was only in Oz, I suppose).