Little did we know it was a prophesy.
Cecilia Gimenez
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Worshipping at the Altar of Beast Jesus
Since Cecilia Giménez Zueco transformed Elías García Martínez’s “Ecce Homo” into the viral sensation “Monkey Jesus,” the Santuario de Misericordia has been turned into an interactive tribute to the two artists’ improbable collaboration.
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A Pilgrimage to Beast Jesus
Cecilia Giménez Zueco’s botched restoration of a small fresco in Spain looks as entrancingly bad in person as it does in pictures.
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Our Prayers Are Answered as Beast Jesus Stars in a Comic Opera
It is the botched restoration that just keeps giving. Beast Jesus — the “Ecce Homo” fresco that now resembles a primate thanks to octonagerian restorer Cecilia Giménez — will make its stage debut this month.
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With Its Own Arts Center, Beast Jesus Rises Again
It was inevitable: Beast Jesus is getting its very own arts center in its home of Borja, Spain.
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How Beast Jesus Saved a Spanish Town
Anyone who still doubts that internet memes can have an impact on the real world should pay a visit to the small town of Borja, in northeastern Spain. Thousands of tourists have been doing just that ever since local amateur art restorer Cecilia Giménez blessed us with Beast Jesus.
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Buy Beast Jesus Artist’s Original Painting on eBay
Are you ready for the collecting opportunity of the century? Cecilia Gimenez, the (in)famous artist behind the restoration of Elias Garcia Martinez’s “Ecce Homo” in a church in northeastern Spain, is selling her original work on eBay.
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Beast Jesus Could be Restored in Just Seven Minutes, Says Conservator
Cecilia Gimenez’s creative restoration of an 120-year-old ecce homo fresco by Elias Garcia Martinez in Spain may have become an international icon for its frizzy mane of hair and blurred face (even inspiring a Halloween costume), but it could all vanish in a matter of minutes.
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Colbert Report Takes on Beast Jesus Master
The tragic/demented/whatever-it-is story of Cecilia Gimenez has entered a new phases of its pop culture notoriety when last night Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report took on the Spanish restoration “master.”
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In Bizarre Turn of Events, Beast Jesus Maker Demands Royalties
In what can only be described as the most unbelievable turn of events around the Beast Jesus debacle, Techdirt says the woman at the center of the global sensation is claiming copyright and wants a cut of the tourist money bonanza that has hit the small Spanish church.
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Tourists Line Up to Visit Beast Jesus
Not only does the internet love Cecilia Gimenez and her Beast Jesus restoration job — so do real life, flesh-and-blood people! Apparently hundreds of tourists have begun making pilgrimages to see the work and take pictures with it, after the apparently well-intentioned octogenarian Eskimo-fied Elías García Martínez’s 19th-century fresco of Jesus. The painting sits on a column between two altars in the Iglesia del Santuario de Misericordia church in Borja, Spain, a small town with a population of around 5,000. Who said the internet was only good for weak ties?
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An Unreleased Interview with Cecilia Gimenez
The overnight artstar and founder of Gimenez Modern Restoration Services may have known what she was doing all along … hmmmmm …