Cecilia Giménez, the girl who achieved undesirable worldwide fame for her botched “Monkey Christ” restoration of a Nineteenth-century mural in Borja, north-east Spain, has died aged 94.
In 2012, Giménez, an newbie artist, determined to revive Ecce Homo, a mural by a neighborhood artist, Elías García Martínez, that hung within the Santuario de Misericordia church in Borja. Nevertheless, her expertise as an artist was not equal to her good intentions and she or he produced what was described because the worst restoration in historical past.
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