Restoration gone wrong: Spain is laughing at verunstaltetes Marie portrait

The news Agency Europa Press, published on Monday, "Before and After"images that illustrate the extent of the botch job. Also, the second attempt went wrong

Restoration gone wrong: Spain is laughing at verunstaltetes Marie portrait

The news Agency Europa Press, published on Monday, "Before and After"images that illustrate the extent of the botch job.

Also, the second attempt went wrong - receipt of the image

The Client, a private collector who had paid for the Job 1,200 euros in advance, don't be almost impossible to Marvel and wonder, as if he had seen the result of a completely botched job. The author of the art disaster was reportedly even a second Chance, but again the overworked man could only deliver a better children's drawing. Now another expert to try to save the image, the hopes were low, it said. EUROPA PRESS/dpa, The image shows the copy of the Marian images of the Spanish Baroque painter Bartolome Esteban Murillo after the restoration attempt.

The case brought back memories of a failed restoration of a Jesus fresco, the 2012 made headlines around the world and Häme. The attempt by a then-80-year-old Amateur restorer, a wall painting of the chapel in Borja, near Zaragoza in the 19th century. Century to repair, ended with the destruction of the image of Christ. Amused media to be baptized at that time, the image of the "Ecce homo" (such as the appearance of the thorn-crowned Christ in the art means) to "Ecce mono" (something like "monkey Jesus").

"Ecce mono" draws countless tourists to

But all find such botch-UPS funny. You "are unfortunately much more common than assumed," said the coordinator of the Spanish restorers Association, ACRE, María Borja Ortiz. "There are countless cases in which individuals without proper training and destroy works of art, always and forever." EUROPA PRESS/dpa, The image shows the copy of the Marian images of the Spanish Baroque painter Bartolome Esteban Murillo after the restoration attempt. AFP This picture shows the disfigured Jesus fresco Ecce Homo by the artist Elias Garcia Martinez: The failed restoration, left-to-right

Out of necessity of the locality made Borja, meanwhile, is a virtue. The "Ecce mono" was thanks in part to Marketing campaigns for major tourist attraction. The defaced image adorns T-Shirts and mugs. Between 2013 and 2018, more than 200,000 tourists from home and abroad visited the 4.900-souls-village in Aragon. The visitors even have to pay admission to be allowed to have a Selfie with the "monkey Jesus" make.

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Date Of Update: 23 June 2020, 19:26
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