Christ Painting Bad Restoration

But for some reason it did not look like the original at all.

Christ painting bad restoration. The intervention transformed the. Art restoration is a painstaking and delicate task but countless botched jobs have reduced beautiful religious figures into divine comedies. The ecce homo in the sanctuary of mercy church in borja spain is a fresco painted circa 1930 by the spanish painter elias garcia martinez depicting jesus crowned with thorns. In 2012 cecilia gimenez an 82 year old widow and amateur painter attempted to restore ecce homo an almost century old fresco of jesus crowned with thorns in her local church in borja spain.

In 2012 when a parishioners attempt to restore a painting of christ on the wall of a church in the spanish. 80 year old cecilia jimenez volunteered to restore the mural with the image of jesus in a local cathedral. Perhaps the elderly womans eyesight failed her. Botched painting restoration turns virgin mary into victim of bad plastic surgery.

Gimenezs less than expert efforts ruined elias garcia martinezs fresco transforming his ecce homo into a work dubbed the monkey christ unleashing countless memes and setting a new global. Both the subject and style are typical of traditional catholic art. Maria gomez a university of valencia art restorer says saving the 19th century church fresco of jesus christ destroyed by a spanish 80 year old cecilia gimenezs botched paint job. At one point garcia martinezs horrified heirs had threatened to sue gimenez for destroying the painting but.

While press accounts agree that the original painting was artistically unremarkable its fame derives from a good faith attempt to restore the fresco by cecilia gimenez an untrained elderly amateur in 2012. The latest entry into this rogues gallery is a. Despite a valiant effort the tragically failed restoration went viral and gimenezs attempt was met with mockery and scorn. Ecce homo behold the man by elias garcia martinez.

The paintings since been found impossible to restore from its current state. The most sensational case of an unsuccessful restoration occurred in spain.