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 ...

A copy of Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's famous painting, The Immaculate Conception of El Escorial, has been subjected to a horrifically botched restoration.

The original Immaculate Conception, 1665-1670 by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. The botched restoration was made on a copy of this work. Art Media/Print Collector ...

A famous painting of the Immaculate Conception by baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo has become the newest in a long line of botched art restorations in Spain. Murillo's painting was ...

But Murillo was especially venerated for his idealized paintings and altarpieces of the Virgin, resplendent works crowded with plump, cherubic angels, emphasizing the Immaculate Conception.

Persecution of the Church in Nicaragua For several years, the Catholic Church in Nicaragua has been the victim of increasing persecution by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship.

Down the road in Dallas, the staircase of the Meadows Museum is dominated by his desserty “ Immaculate Conception ” of the 1650s, where cherubs and clouds bear Mary softly into the stratosphere.

This restoration was anything but immaculate. A furniture restorer attempted to clean up a copy of baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s “The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables ...

Almost a year after the original was destroyed by vandalism, a new statue of the Virgin Mary sits in a garden outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast D.C.

Persecution of the Church in Nicaragua For several years, the Catholic Church in Nicaragua has been the victim of increasing persecution by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship.