VANDALIZED ART IS BEING RESTORED

A Rembrandt masterpiece damaged by an acid-throwing vandal has been saved from destruction and is being restored for eventual return to Leningrad’s Hermitage Museum, a Soviet newspaper reported.

The “evil-doer” poured sulfuric acid on Rembrandt’s portrait of Danae on June 15, the Communist Party daily Pravda said. At first, Pravda said, experts worried that the painting might have been ruined. But it said they discovered that a lacquer coating on the canvas neutralized much of the acid’s effects.