ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin ...

A famous painting of the Immaculate Conception by baroque artist ... the face of the Virgin Mary is now unrecognizable — causing outrage in the Spanish art conservation community and beyond.

The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables' is a painting by the Spanish baroque artist Bartolome Esteban Murillo which has captured the Internet's attention after photos of its botched ...

The angelic face of the Virgin ... painting of the Immaculate Conception. Owned by an anonymous Valencia-based collector, the painting—which is a copy of a 17th-century work by the Spanish ...

The painting at the heart of this story isn’t an original, like the Spanish “Monkey Jesus” fresco that a churchgoer with no qualifications just decided to paint over (below). But a copy of a ...

An attempt to restore a copy of baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables has turned its beatific Virgin Mary into a misshapen lump with red lips.

to carry out work on the copy of The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables by the baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. However, the restorer's first effort was a disaster, leaving Mary's ...

A unique art form developed in the Spanish ... small "The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception," painted on copper, is astonishingly lovely (pictured below), and there are fine Baroque works ...

The latest viral art goof comes from Valencia, Spain, where The Guardian reports that a private art collector had a copy of a painting of the Virgin Mary by the baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban ...