This latest failed restoration has already drawn comparison to other memorably butchered paintings. In 2012 Elias Garcia Martinez’s depiction of Jesus, Ecce Homo, was so badly repainted that it was ...

A picture is usually worth a thousand words, but this painting restoration is only worth five: What the hell is this? An art collector in Valencia, Spain reportedly hired a furniture restorer to come ...

Artworks deteriorate over time, so restoration is necessary to preserve them for future generations. However, there have been many cases of failed restorations of artworks, leading to complaints that ...

Baumgartner is based in Chicago and runs what is now the oldest restoration studio in the city. Using archival and reversible ...

A private art collector's copy of "The Immaculate Conception of El Escorial" by Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was disfigured after a furniture restorer's efforts to clean the painting ...

A "devil-like figure" featured in a painting by a renowned artist that's more than 230 years old has been rediscovered after a recent restoration. The discovery came as a result of conservation work ...

You may be expecting me, a lover of art, to express outrage over the latest botched art restoration job making headlines in recent weeks: a piece of upsetting work apparently perpetrated by a Spanish ...

Monet's waterlilies, Gaudí architecture and Caravaggio's final painting have all received some much-needed restorations this ...

The private collector, in Valencia, is said to have paid a furniture restorer 1,200 euros (£1,080) to carry out work on the copy of The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables by the baroque artist ...

The 19th century church fresco “destroyed” by a Spanish 80-year-old’s botched DIY paint job could be reversed in just seven minutes, it has been claimed. There were fears Cecilia Giménez had caused ...