Seville is up in arms these days because the newly restored face of the Virgin of La Macarena, a 17th century carving by an unknown artist and of incalculable value to thousands of the faithful which, ...

The completion last year of a restoration of Michelangelo’s “David” was welcomed with much excitement and fanfare. The famous statue’s cleaning, though, was nothing more than “the latest in a string ...

“The Louvre’s enigmatic painting par excellence.” That’s how Bernard Dufour, a French abstract painter from the 20th century, once described Pierrot, a 1718–19 painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau ...

Time and overly enthusiastic cleaning had dealt enough damage to Piero Della Francesca’s masterful nativity painting, that when the National Gallery acquired it in 1874, the U.K. Parliament inquired ...

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 ...