{"id":26884,"date":"2020-08-22T08:08:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T08:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=26884"},"modified":"2020-08-20T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T18:50:07","slug":"a-not-so-immaculate-conception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/ceo-life\/art-culture\/a-not-so-immaculate-conception\/","title":{"rendered":"A not-so immaculate conception"},"content":{"rendered":"

A painting by Baroque artist Bartolom\u00e9 Esteban Murillo was attempted to be restored. Tragically.<\/p>\n

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Murillo’s\u00a0Immaculate Conception\u00a0has been \u201crestored\u201d, but the man who was paid by a Valencia-based collector for it to be cleaned left\u00a0the face of the Virgin Mary unrecognisable.<\/p>\n

This was the second attempt to restore it to its original state, this time by a furniture restorer who was paid \u20ac1,200 ($1,355; \u00a31,087). The tragic job has moved conservation experts in Spain to call for a tightening of the laws covering restoration work.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a>, the country’s Professional Association of Restorers and Conservators (Acre) condemned the lack of legal protections, and called the recent incident an act of “vandalism”.<\/p>\n

The incident has forced people to remember the also failed restoration of an Elias Garcia Martinez fresco on the walls of the Santuario de Misericordia de Borja church in Zaragoza, Spain, which turned the scourged face of Christ into a Playmobile figure.<\/p>\n

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Photograph: Centro de Estudios Borjanos\/EPA<\/p><\/div>\n

Fernando Carrera, a professor at the Galician School for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, said such cases highlighted the need for work to be carried out only by properly trained restorers. \u201cI don\u2019t think this guy \u2013 or these people \u2013 should be referred to as restorers,\u201d Carrera told the Guardian<\/a>. \u201cLet\u2019s be honest: they\u2019re bodgers who botch things up. They destroy things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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