Famous painting of Virgin Mary left unrecognizable after botched art restoration in Spain

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Famous painting of Virgin Mary left unrecognizable after botched art restoration in Spain​

Wyatte Grantham-Philips

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A famous painting of the Immaculate Conception by baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo has become the newest in a long line of botched art restorations in Spain.

Murillo’s painting was reportedly cleaned by a furniture collector for €1,200, according to The Guardian. But despite two efforts to restore the work to its original state, the face of the Virgin Mary is now unrecognizable — causing outrage in the Spanish art conservation community and beyond.

“I don’t think this guy – or these people – should be referred to as restorers,” Fernando Carrera, former president of Spain’s Professional Association of Restorers and Conservators told the Guardian.
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More with images at link. I wonder if this is “THE” painting that is so popular or possibly a copy of the famous painting because if this is that major painting, that’s a real negative. So, I thought it was the Assumption, this calls it the Immaculate Conception by Murillo. However it is, these paintings and similar are very lovely. Yes, this must be it below. It’s hard to fathom how this could happen. The article comments on if such people should even be called “restorers”, maybe they were specialists in other. Shame. I’m glad we have images of this already.

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this is why you don’t hire a furniture restorer to work on your art collection. The owner of the painting got what he paid for.
 
Victoria33 said:
I wonder if this is “THE” painting that is so popular or possibly a copy of the famous painting because if this is that major painting, that’s a real negative.
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It was a copy of the original painting that was botched. It took me a while to figure that out. Every time I searched for it different paintings kept coming up. I finally read an article that said the botched painting was a copy of the original. I was starting to think the whole story was fake. Maybe it was just bad copy…😀
 
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A copy or not, it’s a terrible job. Don’t they vet people and check examples of other restorations? It looks like a middle schooler fixed it.
 
Did they hire the same person that did the badly restored Jesus painting several years back?

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On the bright side, now I don’t feel so bad for shrinking my wife’s t-shirt using the hot cycle. Yikes.
 
Spain needs to be on an art blacklist.
 
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Victoria33:
I wonder if this is “THE” painting that is so popular or possibly a copy of the famous painting because if this is that major painting, that’s a real negative.
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It was a copy of the original painting that was botched. It took me a while to figure that out. Every time I searched for it different paintings kept coming up. I finally read an article that said the botched painting was a copy of the original. I was starting to think the whole story was fake. Maybe it was just bad copy…😀
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Thank you for making that clear. I am pretty sure I saw the original Murillo painting in a museum in Spain back in the 70’s.

I could not understand how the owner of such a beautiful artwork would let
a furniture restorer even touch the painting!!
 
I really don’t understand why the people who deface these works of art aren’t charged with destruction of property? It seems like they deliberately set out to deface the art.
 
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Will someone else be employed to do another professional restoration?
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that would be up to the owner of the painting. I doubt it since he was unwilling to pay for a real restoration artist to begin with.
 
On behalf of my not quite middle-school grandsons and my just graduated middle school granddaughter—all of whom are actually very talented artistically—I call defamation of middle schoolers.

Seriously, can we just say, “Someone whose artistic skills are lacking here?”

I’ve been guilty of calling out people for bad grammar by saying that “a middle school student could have done better work’ Until my own darlings said, “Um, grandma that sounds like you don’t think we’re all that smart,” and I realized, “Dang the kids are right. Down with the reverse ageism!”

Now I say, “That sentence is really badly phrased. Let me give you some examples that might help you understand why, and how you can then correct it.”

Not only is that more encouraging to the person who made the error, it doesn’t force any ‘odious comparisons’.

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