Step away from the artworks. 😱
Art restoration is well... an art. And when it goes wrong, it goes really wrong. The latest botched job to make the headlines is a restoration of, which has been described by The Guardian's Jonathan Jones as"a pastiche of Renaissance art by a very cheap, very bad app".
in Spain, with plenty flocking to the church to see the err... masterpiece. We're still not sure we can say it was worth it, though. The Immaculate Conception by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo has suffered not one, but. A Valencia-based art collector apparently paid €1,200 to have the painting cleared up by a furniture restorer, proving, if nothing else, that furniture restoration and art restoration are two very different beasts.
The first attempt sees the Virgin Mary looking rather youthful, while the second does something very strange to her eyes. Needless to say, it's not an immaculate attempt.This carved figure that adorns an early 20th century building in Spain's Palencia received a in 2020. The 'restored' stonework has been described as everything from a sand man from Star Wars to Donald Trump to a potato head. Not quite what the restorer was aiming for, we're sure.This one isn't exactly a botched job, but bear with us...
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