{"id":13190,"date":"2020-06-23T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-botched-art-restoration-turned-the-virgin-mary-into-a-smudgy-mess\/"},"modified":"2020-06-23T02:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T23:16:00","slug":"this-botched-art-restoration-turned-the-virgin-mary-into-a-smudgy-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-botched-art-restoration-turned-the-virgin-mary-into-a-smudgy-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"#This botched art restoration turned the Virgin Mary into a smudgy mess"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#This botched art restoration turned the Virgin Mary into a smudgy mess<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 22, 2020 |<\/span> 7:16pm <\/p>\n

\n This painting is quite sketchy.<\/p>\n

A copy of famous artwork was botched beyond recognition during a repair job \u2014 in a case that could change laws covering restoration work in Spain.<\/p>\n

An anonymous art collector enlisted a furniture restorer to clean a copy of \u201cThe Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables,\u201d a renowned work by Baroque artist Bartolom\u00e9 Esteban Murillo, Europa Press reported.<\/p>\n

But the results were \u2018draw\u2019-dropping \u2014 and not in a good way.<\/p>\n

The blissful face of the Virgin Mary came back looking like a misshapen lump, with smudgy red lips and crooked eyes, following two attempts to restore it to its original state. The job cost around $1,350.<\/p>\n

The shady restoration drew comparisons to the infamous \u201cEcce Homo\u201d fail of 2012.<\/p>\n

In that case, an amateur art restorer in the small village of Borja, Spain, turned her attention to a fresco of Jesus Christ called \u201cEcce Homo\u201d (\u201cBehold the Man\u201d), painted in 1930 by El\u00edas Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n

But her \u201cfix\u201d rendered the face of Jesus wholly unrecognizable \u2014 becoming a global laughingstock and drawing comparisons to a blurry potato and a monkey.<\/p>\n

Now, conservation experts in Spain are calling for a tightening of the laws covering restoration work.<\/p>\n

Fernando Carrera, a professor at the Galician School for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, told The Guardian he thinks restoration should be left to the professionals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to make sure that the people who undertake this kind of work have been trained in it,\u201d Carrera said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you imagine just anyone being allowed to operate on other people? Or someone being allowed to sell medicine without a pharmacist\u2019s licence? Or someone who\u2019s not an architect being allowed to put up a building?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Borja, a vice president of the Valencia chapter of the Professional Association of Conservative Restorers of Spain, said that while social media<\/a> has brought attention to a couple of cases, messed-up restoration jobs may be more common than people know.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a multitude of situations where the works are intervened by people without training\u2026 possibly causing irreversible change,\u201d she told Europa Press.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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