Spanish painting botched twice by amateur restoration job
Bartolome Esteban Murilloâs original and one of the restoration attempts. A painting by famous Spanish Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo is the latest masterpiece to have been disfigured in a botched restoration job. But the face of the Virgin Mary was left completely unrecognisable, despite two attempts to restore it to its original state. Stuff A prized fresco of Jesus Christ became known as "Monkey Christ" after a botched restoration. The association described the botched restoration job as an act of "vandalism".
Source: Stuff June 23, 2020 20:03 UTC
