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Behold The Monkey Fresco Saved As 40,000 Tourists Visit Church

Behold The Monkey Fresco Saved As 40,000 Tourists Visit Church

by News Desk | Aug 13, 2013 | News

An elderly parishioner who stunned Spanish cultural officials with an amateur and unauthorised restoration of a prized local fresco of Jesus Christ has become a hero and an international sensation. The fresco which was botched by an 80-year-old woman in a small-town...
Behold The Botch Job: Latest Spanish Restoration Destroys 15th Century Sculptures

Behold The Botch Job: Latest Spanish Restoration Destroys 15th Century Sculptures

by News Desk | Sep 8, 2018 | News

Two 15th Century wooden sculptures in a Spanish church have been unsympathetically restored by an over-enthusiastic parishioner in an amateur botch job. “I’m not a professional, but I always liked to do it, and the figures really needed to be painted” In a case...
Cecilia Giménez Zueco: Sunday Painter To Global Art Phenomenon Dies Aged 94

Cecilia Giménez Zueco: Sunday Painter To Global Art Phenomenon Dies Aged 94

by News Desk | Jan 2, 2026 | News

  Cecilia Giménez Zueco lived a quiet life in Borja, a small town in Aragón, Spain. She never intentionally set out to become an art celebrity. She painted for pleasure, attended church, and remained largely invisible to the broader world. That anonymity ended...
Murillo Virgin Mary Painting Destroyed By Amateur Restoration

Murillo Virgin Mary Painting Destroyed By Amateur Restoration

by News Desk | Jun 23, 2020 | News

 A 19th-century copy of a painting by the Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s titled The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables has been destroyed by an amateur artist, in Spain. This is yet another example of works of art in Spain that have been updated by...
Botched Spanish Fresco Woman Offers Painting On Ebay For Charity

Botched Spanish Fresco Woman Offers Painting On Ebay For Charity

by News Desk | Dec 14, 2012 | News

The story of an octogenarian who attempted to restore a minor 19th century Spanish fresco has already become legend and one of the art stories of the year, spreading virally on the web over the summer months.Now the 80-year-old woman who became famous because of her...
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