• TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    I’ll repost my comment here then haha.

    I had no idea the woman, Cecilia Giménez, actually was in the middle of her restoration, left for a two week holiday, and came back to a verifiable shit storm.

    Oh and she had permission to attempt the restoration!

    She also quite recently passed away, but has brought significant tourism traffic to Borja, Spain with her attempted restoration to Ecce Homo.

    • calliope@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      6 days ago

      The original painting was mediocre. She really did put the town “on the map,” so to speak.

      The original artist said

      “this is the result of two hours of devotion to the Virgin of Mercy.”

      Wow a whole two hours!

  • qyron@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    Honest question: is this still in place? It was supposed to be restored to the original.