Restored Paintings

The idea for this website began with Vermeer's Girl With A Pearl
Earring, one of my favourite portraits. I found only two versions
on the web: pre-clean (filthy) and post-clean (damaged). Could
Mrs Mop have used a Brillo pad on it?  The only way of obtaining
a good graphic was to fill in all the lost flakes of colour myself.   

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The Murillo (top right) is in very poor condition. All I've done is
disguise the most glaring damage. The charming Gainsborough
(middle left)  looked as if it had been folded in half and had lost
a wide column of paint, which I've done my best to repair.  The
Prud'hon (middle right) had vertical creases; I've hidden them.
Surprisingly,  the oldest painting shown - the Botticelli (1470) -
shows little damage; it needs cleaning.  I've cleaned the sky.    

The Caravaggio (bottom right) seems to exist in only two basic
versions on the web, both badly cropped. One version has lost
the feet at the bottom of the picture;  the other has lost a strip
of the cloth over the Madonna'a arm. I've combined these two
versions in order to complete the picture. View the larger size.