Behold: the Potato Madonna, another attempt at restoring a historic painting gone awry
Beautiful! Photo: Europa Press 2020/Wikimedia Commons A whole raft of questions surfaced in a small Spanish town after the tuber-faced image of Jesus Christ appeared on the walls of its church.
Art historians and conservators don’t think so; the Potato Madonna has prompted calls from Spain’s Professional Association of Restorers and Conservators to impose government regulation on restoration, with bungled jobs having become curiously common in recent years. The Potato Madonna is just the latest example: A private collector enlisted a furniture restorer to touch up their copy of the Immaculate Conception, by baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
“We see this kind of thing time and time again and yet it keeps on happening,” Fernando Carrera, a professor at the Galician School for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage and a former Acre president, told the Guardian. “I don’t think this guy — or these people — should be referred to as restorers. Let’s be honest: they’re bodgers who botch things up. They destroy things.”
From the perspective of preserving cultural and historical artifacts, professional restoration credentials don’t seem like too much to ask. But consider: Potato Jesus can and does perform miracles, just like all the other Jesuses are said to do. Potato Jesus specializes in economic miracles, having enlivened his town’s stream of tourist cash, which has in turn allowed Borja to better care for its seniors.
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