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Jul 15, 2019 · From Spain's infamous "Beast Jesus" to a hastily paved section of the Great Wall of China, here are the world's biggest restoration fails.
- Leonardo da Vinci’s Orpheus Being Attacked by the Furies. The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice – Brendan Pelsue. Did you know that there is a piece of da Vince artwork that you’ve never seen?
- Stone Figure on the Palencia in Spain. ‘Madre Mia’ : Botched restoration in Spain turns shepherdess into ‘potato head’ The restoration of a stone figure on a building in Palencia, Spain, resulted in a controversial and widely criticized outcome.
- The Immaculate Conception by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Unrecognisable ‘Virgin Mary’ The Latest Botched Art Restoration In Spain. The restoration of The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables by the 17th-century Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo in Spain resulted in a botched outcome.
- 15th Century Wooden Sculptures, Ranadoiro, Spain. Spain parishioner botches Jesus and Mary statue restoration, before and after. The restoration of the 15th-century wooden sculptures in Ranadoiro, Spain, resulted in a controversial and botched outcome.
Nov 23, 2023 · The following failed restoration jobs range from humorous to disgraceful. Some were so easy to fix, it’s like they never happened. Others have left masterpieces so irrevocably damaged that huge fines had to be issued.
Indeed, many felt that the changes made to the work had been too dramatic, including two art experts who resigned in protest from the committee supervising the painting’s restoration. Explore these examples of art restorations gone awry.
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- Maggie Simpson, is that you? We are in the Church of Sainte-Anne des Pins in Canada. In front of the church, there is a statue of the Virgin Mary holding Maggie Simpson.
- Holy makeup? In Catholicism, Santa Bárbara is the patron saint of miners and all those who work with fire. However, she couldn’t go through her restoration unscathed.
- When the mosaic becomes a meme. In 2015, a mosaic in the Hatay Museum fell victim to a disastrous restoration, which newspapers presented as a “grotesque restoration”.
- Is he blind? Details of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo’s masterpiece, have also been restored. Thanks to this work, Jesse became blind. This happened because the restorers removed the dirt accumulated on the frescoes to eventually reach its deeper layers, which altered the repairs that Michelangelo himself had made.
Dec 20, 2022 · 01. Monkey Christ disaster. Before and after (Image credit: Centre de Estudios Borjanos / Cecilia Giménez) Known as 'Monkey Christ', this disastrous restoration happened when 81-year-old Cecilia Giménez took it upon herself to 'rescue' a fresco painted in 1930 by Elías García Martínez, which was hanging in her local church.
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Dec 15, 2014 · Images of the botched fresco swirled around Twitter and Facebook, inspiring a slew of memes and parodies now found on the Internet.
