Spanish churches have a heritage of centuries-old art and history. But when restoration of that heritage becomes inevitable, troubles may begin. The changes made to a 16th-century polychrome ...

L to R: The statue of St. George prior to 2018 restoration attempt, statue post-restoration, and statue following recent "unrestoration" Courtesy of Navarre regional government When a botched ...

Housed at the Church of San Miguel de Estella in Navarre, Spain, the sculpture shows a typical depiction of Saint George on horseback clad in armor and fighting a dragon. The sculpture was ...

In a post on its website, the Association of Conservators and Restorers of Spain blasted the restoration of the polychrome St. George statue in a church in Estella, in the Navarre region of ...

aka St. George, in the Church of St. Michael in Estella, a town in the Navarre region of northern Spain. Instead, obliterating any of the detail and subtlety of the original composition ...

The wooden carving of St George on horseback has been a feature of the Romanesque church of San Miguel de Estella, in Navarre, northern Spain, since the 16th century. But efforts by the church’s ...