MADRID (AP) â€" A small Spanish town is trying to figure out what to do with a 20th-century painting of Christ that has been disfigured by a local artist who was trying to restore it. Juan Maria Ojeda, an official in Borja town, said 80-year-old Celia Gimenez decided to touch up the fresco of Christ wearing a crown of thorns in the Misericordia church. He said no one realized how badly disfigured the painting was until she rang town hall to say what she had done. The fate of the painting, completed in 1930, has made national news in Spain. The fresco is of the genre known as "Ecce Homo" style ("Behold the Man"). But on Thursday some Twitter users were dubbing it "Ecce Mono" ("Behold the Monkey").

With that kinda restorative skill no doubt the locals will stone the "artist" to death.

Or am i mixing my religions up again?

Maybe they can get the ballpoint pen artist to fix the fix.

Quote from: Stella on August 24, 2012, 05:23:24 AM
Maybe they can get the ballpoint pen artist to fix the fix.

And act for the defendant.

I hope Celia hasn't quit the day job yet

Chia Jesus?

Quote from: ungeheuer on August 24, 2012, 05:21:47 AM
With that kinda restorative skill no doubt the locals will stone the "artist" to death.

Methinks maybe the artist was plenty stoned already.

She's obviously spent some time studying Picasso's work.

It looks like the painting Rowan Atkinson destroyed then 'repaired'
In the mr. Bean movie. 

I couldn't stop laughing when saw this.

Clearly a protest against the six day creation theory..

Well,I like it.... except for the lips...... then it gets a little creepy. 

the quote in the article i read about it cracked me up.. it said jesus now looks like a "furry monkey in an ill-fitting tunic" ... maybe the artist believes in darwin & this was her idea of a "before" picture 

Before Jesus was a man he was made out of energy or something . You can't draw that.

down syndrom jesus? anyone?
I can't tell if that is blasphemous or not.
Sorry for offending everyone.

Quote from: Mendo Dave on August 25, 2012, 03:16:02 PM
Before Jesus was a man he was made out of energy or something . You can't draw that.

She didn't get that memo