Art
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.
Art
Cecilia Giménez Zueco's botched restoration of a small fresco in Spain looks as entrancingly bad in person as it does in pictures.
News
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
News
The caper of the octogenarian restorer continues! And it keeps getting better and better … we'll call this episode: The Priest Knew!
Opinion
In what can only be described as an art conservation nightmare, a 19th C. church fresco in the town of Borja, Spain, by painter Elías García Martínez has been radically "restored" by an octogenarian neighbor.