ART

Coverings Must Stay: Art restorers said Tuesday that they could not remove coverings painted on to hide nudity in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment frescoes in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel because the originals had been destroyed. The announcement was made after a weeklong international symposium of art historians studying the first phase of a multimillion-dollar restoration of Sistine Chapel works. According to officials, the 1545-63 Council of Trent had ordered that some of the nudes on the 1,800-square-foot Last Judgment be covered. Most of the work was done by Daniele Da Volterra after Michelangelo died in 1564.