Conservators or art restorers are considered the magicians of the art world. Over the course of time, paintings are bound to lose their original color, suffer damage and fade… and thanks to highly skilled conservators, we are able to restore these pieces back to their original glory. But sometimes, very rarely, these beautiful pieces get ruined by someone and the damage is irreversible.
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7 – Leave it to the experts
Imagine a restoration being the reason that people quit their jobs? That’s what happened when experts saw this restoration of the Virgin and Child with St Anne. This painting was done by Leonardo da Vinci, and some experts quit their jobs in protest when they saw this version. As clearly seen, the painting is vastly lighter, as if this scenario took place on a sunny day. These experts claim that this is in complete contrast to Da Vinci’s vision. Although, how would we really know what was going through his head at the time of painting this masterpiece?
6 – A Whiter Shade of Pale
There are very few portraits of Shakespeare in the world, and two were irreversibly ruined. The team in charge of restoring the painting assumed they were removing an outer layer of paint to reveal the original paintings underneath. Turns out, they ended up wiping away the original artwork. It’s believed the paintings were altered during Shakespeare’s lifetime and that the artists back then did it purposefully to show how he had aged. So, when the top layer was removed, underneath was a younger-looking Shakespeare. Currently, the National Portrait Gallery is deciding whether or not to clean up one of their portraits of Shakespeare, which hasn’t been touched up in 400-years!
5 – Not your best look
Head on over to Russia and you’ll find quite a large number of Lenin statues around, but none quite like this one. In Krasnodar Krai one such statue underwent a bit of restoration. It turned out like a bit of a monkey, and remained that way until photos circulated online in 2016, and only after that was he given a make-over to return him to his former self.
4 – A change is as good as a holiday
You would think that taking something that is already in ruins and giving it a make-over would automatically improve it – but not in this case. Not a piece of art per se, but the El Castillo de Matrera is a historical castle from 9th century Spain. This National Monument was damaged by intense rain in 2013, so a project was undertaken to restore it. The end result looks like the original bricks have been stuck on a grey concrete building. It was called a “heritage massacre” and many people were left deeply shocked by the outcome, although ironically – the building was nominated for an Architizer A+ Award and actually won the people’s choice!
3 – Quite the artist
A restoration project that made headlines globally took place in a 16th-century Spanish Church and the artist in question was Cecilia Giménez. The 81-year old lady quickly received the nickname Ecce Mono, which means Behold the Monkey, because she transformed a 19th century fresco of Jesus into something closely resembling a monkey. She thought she was doing the Church a favor, and initially it was anything but – however, give it a bit of a time and she ended up doing the sleep town a huge favor. Misericordia has received thousands of visitors through their doors, all hoping to catch a glance of her artwork and they’ve all left some wonderful donations, very much needed by the Church.
2 – World’s Worst
The restoration of the Great Wall of China has been called the “World’s Worst Restoration”, although after seeing our previous entry – it’s quite possible this restoration project has lost its number 1 spot. It’s no secret that the Great Wall of China is slowly decaying, and a number of years ago a task team set out to reconstruct a certain section of it, which they did – using concrete! The Chinese slammed this terrible job online, and many promises were made to ensure nothing like that ever happened again!
1 – More often, they just get it right
After seeing all the disastrous efforts of restoration, let’s have a look at one that is mind-blowingly amazing! The Adoration of the Shepherds, by the Italian Renaissance master Sebastiano del Piombo, was in total ruins. It really looked like there was no hope for it. The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge commissioned this restoration, and it took them 10-years to complete! The painting dates back to 1511 – 1512, and if you see it today, it would be hard to imagine it as this old painting that almost didn’t make it.
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HOW DARE THEY STEAL BABY JESUS'S HEAD
Heartbreaking how the greater number of fails showed on this video was towards restoring an artwork that involved Jesus the Christ, there is a difference between failure and intentional negative outcome… His paintings were EASY to restore, but the failure was due to a desire to mock His image… :sigh: :head_shake: Bad professionals/bad persons.
Are you eating pop rocks?
You pay for cheap work you pay.Love old stuff should have a law only certain people allowed to restore and if break law you pay for it for the rest of your life till death or item paid off.Also wept with laughter number 3
..such art..
Guys I'm italian and I've been to the Sistine Chapel 5 times. Do not worry, you will drop your jar after entering in it, in 1994 we had another restoration and GOD, the colours you can see there now! Michelangelo would be proud.
After watching this video I am less afraid to restore my old warhammer miniatures ^_^
Who else had this sitting in their recommended for 2 weeks before finally clicking on it
back then, there was no such thing as porn or nsfw tags for artwork and back then it wasn't as frowned upon… the artist mainly expressed themselves and painted what they felt was right. if somebody wants to draw a bunch of dicks hanging from a tree, then be my guest……… cover up a piece of art that is hundreds of years old just because of a couple of penises….. what the hell is this. the artist painted them for a reason…. tree of fertility…?!? that is, by the way, a very creative artistic idea…. XD
#13 just made me crackle up so much AHAHAHHA A ORANGE JESUS HEAD
So this is the meme
7:31 'after' statue from the side is actually arnold schwarzenegger or his… 'cousin' 😛
gets an ad telling me how to become a better artist
Number 4 looks a like a big washing machine with mold on the sides.
the constant changing and moving of pics literally gave me a headache…
The worst condition you can imagine is not even worst enough to describe the way they keep the "Treasures of the Egyptian civilization" at the Cairo Museum. So bad, that it feels like CRYING. They don't allow to take photos, probably that's why, to do not show the horrible conditions they keep the treasures.
I’m so proud almost every masterpiece in this video is Italian or Roman.
The thumbnail had me rolling ?
Ok fine ill watch it !!!!!!!!
when you find a channel like this and know you won't see the sun for 5 days
Looking at the logo of the channel. Is this channel communist?
I mean I guess if you fuck up restoration you're just adding history to the art piece? O-O;;;
Very disappoIntgEd
Tree of PENESES
PENESE, why censor the male sexual organ.
The monkey Jesus painting looks much more interesting than the original.
Who the fuck edited this video?? Stop scrolling left and right and zooming in and out for fucks sakes
………..why… wait why can't they do a test run in Photoshop or something first and THEN ATTEMPT it on the actual artwork? or can they not find the right torrent link for photoshop? :p
Guess I'm using king tuts head as a tea cup then
Some mistakes are unforgivable.
I want to punch these people.
The more fun is lenin ?
would anyone can explain number 1 fail? I bet monkey jesus must be the one 😀
This is stupid video.,You guys dont know what is Art Restoration. Most of them are actually successful jobs.
You cant expect old dusty art pieces look same after restoration. Point of the restoration is also making them look like the times it made.
the first one, in reality is a fuckin crap. not a good restoration.
wtf is #1 for they did an amazing job and to think they took frikin 10 years to ddo something like that is absolutely amazing! You guys deserve a dislike for even thiniking of putting them o the list and as #1 worst! No respect at all I wish I could delete this video honestly you guys are only hungry for views!
So a painting became lighter when someone cleaned all of the dirt off of it (which made it darker) THE PAINTING IS RUINED!
The tree ???
You know they use reversible paint!
This video is simply stupid
None of these are true.
I believe art should be preserved as it is, not restored.
Constant cutting away, repeating images, voiceover obviously done by someone who couldnt care less just chosen for their generic voice, the cheesy top 10 format, panning all over the pictures so you cant see what you’re looking at. Yes, Iiiiiiit’s a shit YouTube ‘content’ video! Well, could have been worse, could have been WatchMojo
Last one seem pretty good … Totally
Most restorers use reversible pigments, most aren’t permanent.
#3 ???? LMAOOOOO