Cecilia Giménez, the artist behind the viral Beast Jesus restoration, has died at 94. Her legacy lives on in memes, tourism, ...

A picture is usually worth a thousand words, but this painting restoration is only worth five: What the hell is this? An art collector in Valencia, Spain reportedly hired a furniture restorer to come ...

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Seville is up in arms these days because the newly restored face of the Virgin of La Macarena, a 17th century carving by an unknown artist and of incalculable value to thousands of the faithful which, ...

Hot on the footsteps of what are now known as “Potato Jesus” and “Mary of the Melted Face,” yet another piece of Spanish art has been subjected to a disastrous restoration attempt. The victim in this ...

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 ...

The conservation of old paintings is the latest slow and painstaking process that might soon be sped up by artificial intelligence. A mechanical engineering student at MIT has just debuted a ...

Artworks such as paintings and sculptures deteriorate over time, so it is necessary to perform regular restoration work to preserve valuable works for future generations. However, sometimes the ...

Priya Khanna talks about deterioration of paintings, conservation and her most challenging project — restoration of the art collection of the Taj hotel in Mumbai Priya Khanna is not an artist or art ...

A private art collector's copy of "The Immaculate Conception of El Escorial" by Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was disfigured after a furniture restorer's efforts to clean the painting ...