Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
A well-intended but ultimately very underqualified octogenarian woman in Borja, Spain, has become something of an international art celebrity as her attempt to restore Elias Garcia Martinez's "Ecce Homo"-styled fresco transformed a more than century-...
Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
Garcia said they want the courts to throw out absentee ballots cast in the Aug. 14 election because of violations uncovered in an ongoing Hialeah voter-fraud probe...County Commission Chairman Joe Martinez, who ran for Miami-Dade mayor, and Property...
EW - PopWatch
| 10 months ago
Some take up knitting; others make multi-million dollar explosion-fests . Cecilia Gimenez of Borja, Spain, has a different hobby: She spent hours attempting to restore a water damaged, century-old fresco of Jesus in Borja's Santuario de la...
NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
The 19th-century Spanish fresco terribly damaged by what many are calling the "world's worst restoration" has become an overnight tourist attraction. Hundreds of travelers have flocked to the small village of Borja in northeast Spain to get a glimpse...
The Guardian
| 10 months ago
silence Let's deplore the public appetite for the types of murderers who thrive on infamy and attention Anders Behring Breivik: wrongly, his profile is so much higher than his victims...Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP So, in the end, Anders Behring...
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
Cecilia Jimenez, who had restored the paintings in the old church for years, said the priest gave her permission to restore Ecce Homo by Elias Garcia Martinez. The painting, a sophisticated depiction of Jesus with the crown of thorns around his head,...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
A well-meaning elderly woman made international headlines when she attempted to restore the painting of Jesus Christ in the Sanctuary of Mercy Church in the city of Zaragoza. One critic described the end-result as a crayon sketch of a "very hairy...
The Independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics The Spanish pensioner who has achieved worldwide notoriety for her botched attempts to spruce up a 19th-century fresco of Christ is herself in need of some restoration. So unrelenting has been the attention focused on her less-than-...
Gawker
| 10 months ago
Thousands Sign Petition to Save Worst Fresco Touch Up Ever as Elderly Woman Responsible Speaks It's been described as "a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic " and compared to a sloth , but the world's worst restoration of a...
