This article deals with a controversial subject forgotten by scholars: What must we do with the architectural restorations of Romanesque buildings when their sculptural elements (capitals, columns, corbels...) have been repainted with strident colours according to popular taste of the last two centuries? It is a matter of aesthetic canon and a matter of taste, both of them changeable with the course of time and the changes of criteria. Meanwhile, we are losing a patrimonial legacy that as well as being a historical testimony, it is also artistic, and, that, somehow, is related to the Romanesque taste for covering both architecture and its monumental elements with striking and flashy colours, suspiciously with the same style of repainted elements that we tend to eliminate without a serious and previous reflection nowadays.