The 19th century church fresco “destroyed” by a Spanish 80-year-old’s botched DIY paint job could be reversed in just seven minutes, it has been claimed. There were fears Cecilia Giménez had caused ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The artistic atrocity is still generating tourism revenue for Borja, Spain Years after a botched restoration of a religious ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MADRID — A case of suspected vandalism in a church in a northeastern village has turned out to be probably the worst art restoration project seen in Spain.

It was an unholy mistake — that became one town’s miracle. In 2012, an amateur art restorer in the small village of Borja, Spain, turned her attention to a fresco of Jesus Christ called “Ecce Homo” ...

A classic Spanish fresco painting of Jesus Christ has been ruined after a restoration attempt. An elderly parishioner shocked cultural officials after she made a well-intended but unauthorised go at ...

THE woman responsible for “Monkey Jesus” – the butchered restoration of an historic Jesus fresco – has died. Cecilia Giménez, from Borja, Spain, made headlines in 2012 when she painted over a ...

Restoration of a 10ft painting of Jesus on the cross discovered in a damp barn and moved to a church for safety has begun. It was discovered by Sarah Worne and her husband after they bought a plot of ...

FOUNTAIN — As a child, Loren Finseth said he still remembers gazing at the towering painting of Jesus’ ascension into Heaven that graced Root Prairie Lutheran Church’s altar. "It’s one of my earliest ...

Church officials have gone ape after a pensioner tried to restore a faded painting and ended up making Jesus Christ look like a monkey. 80-year-old Celia Gimenez decided to touch up the worn fresco of ...