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 ...