Experts call for regulation after latest botched art restoration in Spain

[ornotna]

Conservation experts in Spain have called for a tightening of the laws covering restoration work after a copy of a famous painting by the baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo became the latest in a long line of artworks to suffer a damaging and disfiguring repair.

A private art collector in Valencia was reportedly charged €1,200 by a furniture restorer to have the picture of the Immaculate Conception cleaned. However, the job did not go as planned and the face of the Virgin Mary was left unrecognisable despite two attempts to restore it to its original state.

The case has inevitably resulted in comparisons with the infamous “Monkey Christ” incident eight years ago, when a devout parishioner’s attempt to restore a painting of the scourged Christ on the wall of a church on the outskirts of the north-eastern Spanish town of Borja made headlines around the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jun/22/experts-call-for-regulation-after-latest-botched-art-restoration-in-spain

What an absolute shame.

[chowder66]

1. That restoration is criminal.

[pansypoo53219]

2. that is WTF were you thinking? shit.

[dalton99a]

3. Great job

[lpbk2713]

4. That is horrid.

What a shame. It's ruined.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. That pretty much defines defacement.

[Lucinda]

5. ...

[sakabatou]

6. Reminds me of that one woman who tried to clean up her mess years ago

[ornotna]

8. The Monkey Christ

Another disaster. Although the tourism in that town has gone up because of it. Still a shame though.