Spanish Baroque Painting Is Unrecognizable After Botched Restoration

A private art collector in Valencia, Spain paid €1,200 EUR ($1,355 USD) to restore an oil painting replica of a work by the famed Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Despite two attempts to fix the piece, the religious subject in the composition has been left unrecognizable, as per The Guardian. The original work, entitled The Immaculate Conception of El Escorial, portrays the Virgin Mary and is currently housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The botched Murillo restoration has been ...