It's a botch-up! Monkey Christ and the worst art repairs of all time

As another religious painting restoration goes horribly wrong, we take a look at some of the finest examples of butchered statues, art installations and frescoes

In the latest instalment of the greatest genre of art news - and I write that as a lover of art - another restoration has gone awry. The word awry" is being generous.

This is the revelation that a private collector, based in Valencia, paid 1,200 (1,070) for a restoration job on baroque painter Bartolome Esteban Murillo's Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables. It is no longer immaculate. It now looks like an e-fit issued by a local police force, with those thin eyebrows popular in the 90s. What's more, the restorer (who it turns out was a furniture restorer by trade) made two attempts - the second significantly worse than the first. That one, the e-fit one, has the Virgin Mary staring straight ahead, which isn't even the same position as the original, which has Mary looking to the heavens.