Amateur artist who famously botched ‘Monkey Jesus’ restoration dead at 94

The messed-up masterpiece became a sensation and turned the tiny town of Borja into a bustling tourist attraction.
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Cecilia Giménez, painter behind viral 'Beast Jesus' restoration, dies at 94

Her well-meaning but unsanctioned intervention transformed Christ's face into what many online described as simian.
Times of San Diego

Public Invited As Timken Museum Puts Final Touches on Restoration of 18th-Century Painting

Sneak a peek at how a masterpiece is restored twice a week in April at the Timken Museum of Art in Balboa Park. Museum attendees may observe from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Thursdays and from ...
Colossal

Watch Julian Baumgartner’s Satisfying and Precise Process of Restoring a Historical Portrait

Baumgartner is based in Chicago and runs what is now the oldest restoration studio in the city. Using archival and reversible ...
The Nation Newspaper

Between painting, restoration of art

A 2000 graduate of Painting from Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, Mr. Ariyo Oguntimehin, is an artist of many parts. Apart from being a documentary photographer, art facilitator, he has also ...
Newsweek

Another Painting Bungled, Here’s How Not To Disfigure Art With Restoration

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 ...