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Woman Behind Viral Restoration Fail Dies at 94

Cecilia Gimenez unintentionally gave the world 'Monkey Christ'

(Newser) - The Spanish woman behind one of the internet's most infamous art mishaps has died at 94. Cecilia Gimenez, a parishioner from Borja in northeastern Spain, gained global attention in 2012 when her well-intentioned attempt to touch up a deteriorating fresco of Jesus in her local church dramatically altered the...

Botched Restoration Luring Scads of Tourists

Bizarre Jesus even gets Twitter profile

(Newser) - The astoundingly botched "restoration" of a 19th-century Spanish fresco featuring Christ has become a hit with tourists—and now even has its own Twitter account ("once a handsome fresco, now a hedgehog," guffaws the parody profile). The horrible paint job by a well-intentioned elderly parishioner at a...

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