Now, when you think of Spain, you will think of bad art restorations. Spain has found itself in the center of yet another story about an amateur art restorer being hired to clean up a priceless piece ...

Artworks deteriorate over time, so restoration is necessary to preserve them for future generations. However, there have been many cases of failed restorations of artworks, leading to complaints that ...

When you think of France, you think of the “Mona Lisa” in the Louvre. When you think of Italy, you think of the iconic “David of Michaelangelo” sculpture. Now, when you think of Spain, you will think ...

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 ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – After months of painstaking restoration and renovations on the Capitol’s Rotunda, scaffolding is set to come down – a month early. Crews have been working on the restoration ...

In the third known act of egregious artistic restoration of Spanish Catholic art in recent history, a 15th century statue of Christ and Mary has been given a fresh - and loud - coat of paint, ...

Italy's floating city is slowly succumbing to the unrelenting wash of the Adriatic. One of Venice's landmarks, St. Mark's Basilica, is among the hardest-hit by the recent tidal surge – worshipers ...

Hot on the footsteps of what are now known as “Potato Jesus” and “Mary of the Melted Face,” yet another piece of Spanish art has been subjected to a disastrous restoration attempt. The victim in this ...

Four letters on a jar are the only reason Pauline and Yaba Baker were able to trace back their ancestry to enslaved potter David Drake.

In spotless laboratories, well locked and hidden away in the basements of the world’s great museums, hundreds of men in white smocks are working feverishly, day in and day out, at “restoring” art ...

IMMEDIATELY after the October Revolution in 1917, the Soviet government took effective measures to protect cultural relics. Government commissars charged with the task of ensuring the safety of art ...

In a very informative article, Nanowerk Spotlight reports that nanotechnology is now being used to save Renaissance masterpieces. Italian researchers have successfully used nanoparticles of calcium ...