Artist of Famous Botched Restoration Dies

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Cecilia Giménez, Whose Botched Restoration Became an Icon, Dies at 94

The Spanish artist delighted the world with her intervention on a church fresco lovingly dubbed “Beast Jesus.”

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I remember when that was such a big deal. I just read the Wikipedia article about her and learned something:

Giménez said that the attempted restoration was actually an incomplete work in progress. "I left it to dry and went on holiday for two weeks, thinking I would finish the restoration when I returned", she said. "When I came back, everybody in the world had heard about Ecce Homo. The way people reacted still hurts me, because I wasn't finished with the restoration." She argued, "I still think about how if I hadn't gone on holiday, none of this would have ever happened."

I never knew before that it wasn't supposed to be like that.