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Spanish fresco restoration botched by amateur

painted wolf

painted wolf

Grey Muzzle
OMG.... well, the plus side is that the fresco is now going to get some attention. Hopefully they can repair the damage.

This isn't the first botched "repair". Still, the old lady's heart was in the right place... it was really the guy who let her do it that should be blamed.

wa:do
 
Kodanshi

Kodanshi

StygnosticA
Well, over the centuries, plenty of restorations have modified originals to ridiculous degrees. Vermeer’s ‘Girl Interrupted in Her Music’ had a birdcage added in on the top left by a later hand in order to symbolise how a woman should remain ‘caged’ and not go about gallivanting with strangers and getting drunk.

The biggest for me, however, was Michelangelo’s ‘The Last Judgment’, where Pope Paul IV had someone paint over the originally naked genitals of the gathered folks. Even in 1993 the restoration covered up the naked figures…
 
Alceste

Alceste

Vagabond
Lol, I have seen that face all over the internet. It's a meme now. I didn't know the story behind it.
 
Storm

Storm

ThrUU the Looking Glass
The hell? "The once-dignified portrait now resembles a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic, he says." Yeah, pretty much.

What moron lets some random twit with a brush have at a prized antiquity?
 
Alceste

Alceste

Vagabond
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