The unfortunate restoration of a Bartolomé Esteban Murillo painting has prompted the conservation community to call for stricter regulation.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
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The Unsung Portraits of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
The show at the Frick Collection foregrounds the artist’s inventive portraits, which are not as well known as his religious paintings.
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Piecing Together the Histories of a Series of Stolen Paintings
Among all the descriptions on all the different museum websites of a group of paintings originally designed to be shown together, there isn’t very much in the way of assuming responsibility or prioritizing transparency.