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« on: August 28, 2012, 12:53:53 AM »
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If you wondered what Julio's signature meant:

Old lady's repair job on fresco becomes unlikely tourist attraction as hundreds queue to see her handiwork

By Leon Watson

It had been a relatively unknown piece of 19th century art, until an infamous bit of dodgy DIY made it world famous.

Now the crumbling fresco which Spanish volunteer church worker Cecilia Jimenez, 80, painted her crude rendition of Christ's face over has become a tourist attraction in its own right.

According to locals, hundreds of people have been flocking to the Sanctuary of Mercy Church in southern Spain's Aragon region to take a look at it for themselves.

Jimenez altered the 120-year-old fresco, Ecce Homo by Elijah Garcia Martinez, by covering it with a thick layer of paint in the belief she had permission from the local priest. But locals were horrified and when news of her 'repair' hit the headlines, she was vilified.

The image of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, displayed at the church near the city of Zaragoza, was described as resembling a monkey after her bid to restore it.

Juan Maria Ojeda, local councillor for culture, described the restoration job on the artwork in the small town of Borja as 'unspeakable'.

And the artist's family, who had donated money for a professional restoration, also criticised the amateur job.

However, overnight interest in it exploded. The painting became an sensation when pictures of her amateur 'restoration' hit the internet and sparked a craze for copycat 'restorations', mocked-up purely for comic purposes online.

Many of Leonardo Da Vinci's most iconic creations have been given the botched restoration treatment; with the Mona Lisa's famously enigmatic smile obscured by Jimienez's work.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2194347/Botched-fresco-unlikely-tourist-attraction-hundreds-queue-old-ladys-handiwork.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

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