The tragicomic story of the botched restoration of Ecce Homo—which has gone so wrong as to be dubbed “The Monkey Christ” or “Beast Jesus”—has become the subject of an opera production. Behold the man ...

The amazingly botched restoration of the famous “Ecce Homo” painting, done by a Spanish amateur painter who turned a 19th century portrait of Jesus into that of a ghost monkey, took the Internet by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cecilia Giménez in 2013 with her ‘restoration’ of Ecce Homo (c 1930): it drew tens of thousands of tourists to visit her hometown ...

Spanish churches have a heritage of centuries-old art and history. But when restoration of that heritage becomes inevitable, troubles may begin. The changes made to a 16th-century polychrome statue of ...

In 2012, Cecilia Giménez took on a restoration of "Ecce Homo" that failed and went viral -- and was, for years, an embarrassment. But the town has since embraced the incident in support of her and ...

Cecilia Giménez, who gained notoriety in 2012 after she attempted to restore a 1930s fresco of Jesus Christ at her local church but found mockery for the repair, has died at the age of 94 The painting ...

The ridiculously bad restoration job known as Beast Jesus is the gift that keeps on giving for the Spanish town of Borja. The small village is doing its best to extend the Ecce Homo craze that saw ...

Sometimes — though almost never — disasters in the art world end in miracles. In 2012, a small church in the Spanish town of Borja became the scene of one such miracle. Many remember the Ecce Homo ...

It was the botch job heard around the world. So laughably executed was Cecilia Giménez’s supposed restoration of a fresco titled Ecce Homo that it appeared on the cover of newspapers from New York to ...

The amazingly botched restoration of the famous “Ecce Homo” painting, done by a Spanish amateur painter who turned a 19th The amazingly botched restoration of the famous “Ecce Homo” painting, done by ...