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The museum has gone against traditional conservatorial thinking in allowing natural light from the lenses to illuminate its art work.

He graduated in 1991 and left for a post conservatorial study to New York City.

The exhibition's artifacts have posed a daunting set of conservatorial issues never before encountered, Dr. Ramirez said.

"For us, renovation was dictated by conservatorial necessity because the condition of the building - especially the roof, the windows, the heating and humidity control - was hardly tolerable."

Much of his job at the Prado, Mr. Brealey said, will be to teach this "living" approach to art conservation to the museum's conservatorial staff, which until now, he says, has been trained "in any manner of diverse ways."

The paintings look to be in the bloom of conservatorial health and are cleanly presented in alcoves that line either side of Paine Webber's lobby, but they are, on the whole, minor in stature, and in the absence of any overarching theme that might give them point, make for a sleepy exhibition.