Conserving 'Virgin and Child in Glory' by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

When the painting first came into the studio, when I first saw it, I was quite overwhelmed actually at how large, how many colors, how many different types of methods Murillo used when he was painting. So at first I was quite overwhelmed with what I was going to be undertaking, but as I began to really start to look using the different investigative techniques that we have here, using infrared and x-ray and optical microscopy, I was able to get a really good understanding of what all the elements of the painting and what I was actually dealing with and understanding that helped me get a better understanding of Murillo's technique and his hands. So it was really, then I felt really excited and confident to move forward. I feel so excited and really thrilled to be able to see it on the wall and all the hard work that Santhi's done in making this a beautiful presentation. I'm really, really very overwhelmed now to see it and it's on the wall.