Ecce Homo restoration botched

[brownie]

From The Telegraph today:

Ecce Homo botched

Hope the lady 'with good intentions' is given another chance soon...

[Pete C]

Bloody octogenarians.

[rostasi]

I think it was Dr. Zira trying to change Earth's history.

[JSngry]

  On 8/22/2012 at 8:25 PM, rostasi said:

I think it was Dr. Zira trying to change Earth's history.

OMG I HAVE DIED AND GONE TO THE MOVIES!!! LOL!!!

[EKE BBB]

I really prefer these restorations...

[kinuta]

Whatever were they thinking entrusting this to an amateur. Unbelievable.

[robertoart]

If you pay peanuts you get monkey's.

[sonnymax]

  On 8/23/2012 at 12:16 AM, kinuta said:

Whatever were they thinking entrusting this to an amateur. Unbelievable.

  On 8/23/2012 at 4:50 AM, freelancer said:

If you pay peanuts you get monkey's.

You guys should read the article before posting comments. Nobody "entrusted" or "paid" the woman, she did it on her own without permission and without other people's knowledge.

[robertoart]

  On 8/23/2012 at 5:11 AM, sonnymax said:

  On 8/23/2012 at 12:16 AM, kinuta said:

Whatever were they thinking entrusting this to an amateur. Unbelievable.

  On 8/23/2012 at 4:50 AM, freelancer said:

If you pay peanuts you get monkey's.

You guys should read the article before posting comments. Nobody "entrusted" or "paid" the woman, she did it on her own without permission and without other people's knowledge.

Yeah, but if there was proper funding to look after the cultural heritage of the area, it would have been attended to professionally before she got a chance to show off her handiwork. To be fair though, there is such an embarrassment of riches in the sacred art department over that way, that people just take it for granted - unless it's work by one of the Masters. That's how come she got to do it all, because it wasn't deemed an important enough work for anyone to notice. Except for the 'world media' - who are always looking for some kind of innocuous distraction to get the WTTF factor happening. Wouldn't surprise me if the whole story was total BS anyway.

[Swinging Swede]

This has since become an Internet meme. For example:

[AllenLowe]

somehow this looks like a project by the guy who did Mona Lisa with a mustache (Duchamp). I think I like her work.

Edited December 26, 2012 by AllenLowe