Focus on this artwork and analyze the A six year conservation.
In 2011 it was announced that the mural would be taken down. The mural, which had been losing tesserae, was the subject of a two-year study to work out how it could be conserved. The mural is to be taken apart and recreated with a stainless steel backing. The conservation was estimated to cost three million dollars. The mural was reinstalled at the Ulrich Museum of Art in 2016.
Ulrich Museum mural tesserae