{"id":30605,"date":"2018-09-10T13:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T17:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=30605"},"modified":"2024-06-25T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T14:40:00","slug":"a-mess-toration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2018\/09\/a-mess-toration\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mess-toration!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_54494\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cities-of-the-world-01-600x375-2-1.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54494\" class=\"wp-image-54494\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cities-of-the-world-01-600x375-2-1.webp\" alt=\"before and after images of the sculpture - a true mess-toration\" width=\"171\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before &amp; After<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Mess-toration! It appears that another amateur artist has decided to try their hand at restoration.\u00a0\u00a0Mar\u00eda Luisa Men\u00e9ndez, a shopkeeper in Ra\u00f1adorio, Spain, felt that the figures in a 15th-century wood sculpture were in need of some tender loving care.\u00a0 The results were rather shocking &#8230; the original polychrome paint was covered with brightly colored pigments &#8211; they now look like plastic toys.<\/p>\n<p>While her intentions were good, the regional authorities have stated that they will be taking legal action since there are laws protecting Spanish cultural heritage.\u00a0 People need to understand that proper restoration and conservation needs to be left to a professional conservator.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/09\/10\/behold-another-botched-restora.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Behold another botched restoration of a religious artifact<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mess-toration! It appears that another amateur artist has decided to try their hand at restoration.\u00a0\u00a0Mar\u00eda Luisa Men\u00e9ndez, a shopkeeper in Ra\u00f1adorio, Spain, felt that the figures in a 15th-century wood sculpture were in need of some tender loving care.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2018\/09\/a-mess-toration\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":54494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[258,665,257,85,53],"class_list":["post-30605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-conservation","tag-damaged-sculptures","tag-restoration","tag-sculpture","tag-stupid-art-world-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Mess-toration! - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It appears that another amateur artist has decided to try their hand at restoration resulting in a mess-toration.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2018\/09\/a-mess-toration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Mess-toration!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It appears that another amateur artist has decided to try their hand at restoration resulting in a mess-toration.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2018\/09\/a-mess-toration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/howard.rehs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-09-10T17:15:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-25T14:40:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cities-of-the-world-01-600x375-2-1.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"375\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Howard L. 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