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Spain has (yet another) new botched restoration
A well-meaning parishioner has become the latest Spaniard to make headlines with a botched restoration job after sprucing up wooden carvings in her local church.
St George or Tintin? The best memes of Spain's latest botched restoration
The restoration of a 16th century wooden statue of St George in a church in Estella, Navarra, made headlines in Spain and provoked widespread mirth.
New botched restoration gives 500-year-old St George statue a cartoon face
One would think that after all the furore over the botched restoration of a priceless fresco of Christ by an amateur painter well into her 80s that those tempted to pick up a paintbrush to touch up an ancient artwork in Spain might think twice.
New comic opera celebrates Spanish woman's botched Jesus restoration
An opera celebrating the story of an octogenarian artist whose attempt to restore a fresco of Christ went disastrously wrong has had its US workshop premier in Arizona.
Original Ecce Homo painting shows 'pre-botch' Jesus
A painting has been discovered that shows the original Ecce Homo, a fresco made infamous when an octogenarian amateur artist attempted to restore it - with disastrous results.
Opera celebrates botched restoration of 'monkey jesus'
Four years after an octogenerian achieved worldwide notoriety when an attempt to spruce up a fresco of Christ went disastrously wrong, she is about to find renewed fame as the protagonist of an opera.
Pensioner turns priceless fresco into 'Monkey Jesus': The Opera
Three years after an octogenerian achieved worldwide notoriety when an attempt to spruce up a fresco of Christ went disastrously wrong, she is about to find renewed fame as the protagonist of an opera.
'Monkey Jesus' restorer to star in music video
The Spanish woman who attained global celebrity after she 'restored' a prize fresco of Jesus Christ known as Ecce Homo is about to see her career take another turn — as the co-star of a rock video clip.
Monkey Jesus priest remanded in custody
The priest of the small Spanish village home to an infamous 'restored' fresco of Jesus Christ was on Thursday remanded in custody on sex and fraud charges.
Ecce Homo priest hit with €200,000 fraud charge
The priest of a small Spanish village which rose to international fame after a local woman in 2012 'restored' a fresco of Jesus Christ has been arrested for alleged sexual abuse and the embezzlement of €210,000 ($285,000).