Baumgartner is based in Chicago and runs what is now the oldest restoration studio in the city. Using archival and reversible ...

MADRID – A painting by the 80-year-old Spanish artist who became famous for her botched restoration of a Christ fresco in a small-town church has fetched $1,421 on eBay. The closing price Tuesday for ...

Good news for fans of botched restorations: the famously flubbed restoration of Elías García Martínez’s 1930 fresco Ecce Homo (Behold the Man), is the unlikely subject of a forthcoming documentary ...

The 19th century church fresco “destroyed” by a Spanish 80-year-old’s botched DIY paint job could be reversed in just seven minutes, it has been claimed. There were fears Cecilia Giménez had caused ...

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 ...

Restoration of a 10ft painting of Jesus on the cross discovered in a damp barn and moved to a church for safety has begun. It was discovered by Sarah Worne and her husband after they bought a plot of ...

A classic Spanish fresco painting of Jesus Christ has been ruined after a restoration attempt. An elderly parishioner shocked cultural officials after she made a well-intended but unauthorised go at ...

It was an unholy mistake — that became one town’s miracle. In 2012, an amateur art restorer in the small village of Borja, Spain, turned her attention to a fresco of Jesus Christ called “Ecce Homo” ...

The artistic atrocity is still generating tourism revenue for Borja, Spain Years after a botched restoration of a religious painting exploded to viral fame, the artistic atrocity known as “Monkey ...

An untrained cleaner destroyed and then "redid" an art collector's painting in Spain. Classic paintings must be handled with extreme care by professional restorers. These paintings are made of layers ...