Mural painting restoration goes horribly wrong, Jesus Christ looks hilarious now
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Somewhere in the north-eastern Spanish city of Borja, an elderly woman is probably praying that the road to hell is not really paved with good intentions.
There can be little doubt that the woman, identified only as an octogenarian local, was just trying to help when she noticed that the face of the scourged Christ on the wall of a small church in the city was looking a bit faded, and decided to freshen it up a bit.
Sadly for her – and Elías García Martínez, the 19th-century artist who painted the mural – her brush skills were not quite up to the job.
The unnamed amateur has transformed what was once a pleasant, if unremarkable, Ecce Homo into something that more closely resembles a bloated hedgehog than the image of Jesus before Pilate.
The press have dubbed her efforts "the worst restoration in history" and "a botched job", and the Borja authorities fear they are right.
According to the local paper, El Heraldo de Aragón, the damage inflicted on the mural in the church of the Santuario de la Misericordia is being investigated by experts, but the artist's descendants are said to be unhappy that an individual decided to take the restoration job into her own hands and fear her handiwork is irreversible.
Juan María de Ojeda, a city councillor, said the woman, acting "spontaneously and with good intentions", had confessed what had happened as soon as she realised "that things had got out of hand".
He added that while the mural was not a work of great importance, it retained a certain sentimental value as the artist's family still have strong links to the area.
"The family used to come here on holiday," Ojeda told El País. "He painted the picture one summer and left it to the town."
Although no one seems sure when the woman embarked on the restoration project, news of the incident first surfaced on the blog of the Centre for Borja Studies a fortnight ago.
The centre posted some graphic before-and-after pictures, along with a plaintive message confirming that someone had recently been up to no good with a brush.
"As incredible as it may seem, this is all that remains of the work of an artist whose descendants still live in our city," it said. "We do not know whether this unspeakable deed can de remedied, but there can be no doubt whatsoever that someone should take the necessary action to ensure that such behaviour is not repeated. Whatever the motives were, it must be roundly condemned."
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[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/aug/22/spain-church-mural-ruin-restoration[/url]
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Looks like a blow up doll.
Hahahaha holy shit how can you fuck up so badly?
[quote]Our correspondent says that to make matters worse, the local centre that works to preserve artworks had just received a donation from the painter's granddaughter which they had planned to use to restore the original fresco.[/quote]
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Why would she add so many things that weren't even there? Like the bottom of the scroll in the enlarged photo.
Oh god..
[img]http://ep01.epimg.net/cultura/estaticos/2012/08/cristo-borja/ecce1.jpg[/img][img]http://ep01.epimg.net/cultura/estaticos/2012/08/cristo-borja/ecce2.jpg[/img]
The scroll at the bottom has been drawn impossibly wrong.
Why does he have white pupils and black eyes?
Man that's so fucked.
[QUOTE=kmathis;37358907]Looks like a blow up doll.[/QUOTE]
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shamelessly stolen from Garry
How can you fuck up that badly. This is almost as bad that that man from 4Chan and his [url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11823009/self-esteem%20builder.jpg]Facebook[/url] fiasco
WAIT A MINUTE!
Is this like, actually been redone over the old painting as a proper restoration or is it just like "HEY I PAINTED THIS ONE DAY HERE YOU HAVE IT."
The person who did that should never be allowed near canvas again.
Damnit Bean, not again!
[video=youtube;NQevyIy8hzs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQevyIy8hzs[/video]
It's a bad sign when overlaying Nathan Drake's face over something makes it look better.
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Thats fucking terrible
and hilarious.
this is seirously the greatest tHING ever
The longer I stare...the creepier it gets.
still makes me laugh though
Wow, that was exactly what I thought of and was going to post when I read the OP, mac338 :v:
[QUOTE=mac338;37359066]Damnit Bean, not again!
[video=youtube;NQevyIy8hzs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQevyIy8hzs[/video][/QUOTE]
this was exactly what I was thinking of
how the fuck does anyone fuck it up so bad...
[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;37359037]WAIT A MINUTE!
Is this like, actually been redone over the old painting as a proper restoration or is it just like "HEY I PAINTED THIS ONE DAY HERE YOU HAVE IT."[/QUOTE]
They're so upset because the original's been destroyed by her effort.
I can't draw a stick figure and I would still do a better job.
[QUOTE=areolop;37359014]How can you fuck up that badly. This is almost as bad that that man from 4Chan and his [url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11823009/self-esteem%20builder.jpg]Facebook[/url] fiasco[/QUOTE]
Jesus christ I think I heard the spaghetti pouring out his pockets from across the world.
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[QUOTE=BlueChihuahua;37359248]They're so upset because the original's been destroyed by her effort.[/QUOTE]
It's actually the most hardcore terrible restoration of anything ever.
[QUOTE=areolop;37359014]How can you fuck up that badly. This is almost as bad that that man from 4Chan and his [url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11823009/self-esteem%20builder.jpg]Facebook[/url] fiasco[/QUOTE]
I can't even read that chatlog past a certain point
I just cringe so hard that I close it
Oh lord, This is Hilarious
The screwed up one looks like the 4th doctor
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[QUOTE=kmathis;37358907]Looks like a blow up doll.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of those little monkeys with the really cute faces.
Oh haha, seriously. "Oh what's this painting? It's a bit faded out, let me put some paint on that... Oops."
what a fucking retard
this is more of a paint over than a touch up, a restoration would normally be the same colors are used and painted directly over the old ones, not the whole fucking painting is half arsedly re-done, fuckin stupid bitch, this completely enrages me.
My rage has nothing to do with the fact that she desecrated a painting of jesus, i dont care bout that, but the fact that she fucked up a perfectly fine, very old painting.
The inner art student in me is bursting at the seams
"Ninginginging gurkle spt"
-Jesus Christ of Innsmouth
I need this for an avatar, someone please resize it.
I seriously think I could have painted better than that, and I suck at drawing, but damn I'd actually take the time to make it as accurate as possible to the original.
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