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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A picture is usually worth a thousand words, but this painting restoration is only worth five: What the hell is this? An art ...

Johannes Vermeer, "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window" (1657-59) before and after restoration. (© Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; photos by Klut/Estel and ...

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 ...

Even in this modern world of Photoshop, CGI and Instagram filters, not just anyone can call themselves an artist. When amateurs try to restore traditional masterpieces, things often go wrong. The ...

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 ...