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 ...

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 ...

The Immaculate Conception "celebrates the belief that Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, was prepared for her unique and special role as the Mother of God." (Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe) ...

Immaculate Conception. Guido Reni, 1627. (photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York / Public Domain ) Larry Chapp Commentaries December 8, 2024 ...

The statue of the Immaculate Conception, which sits atop a 12-meter (39.4-foot) high column, was dedicated on Dec. 8, 1857, shortly after the Church proclaimed the doctrine of Mary’s Immaculate ...

(NEXSTAR) — This was not an immaculate restoration. A furniture restorer was hired by an anonymous owner to clean up a copy of “The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables,” a famous work by … ...

In Mary, the Immaculate Conception, it has. She is that one spot in all of humanity that responded fully, and without sin, to the initiative of God in her son and savior, Jesus the Christ.