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#CeciliaGiménez, famed for ‘#MonkeyChrist mural mishap, dies at 94 | #Spain | The Guardian
Sad to see she has died. She inadvertently became famous, though probably for the wrong reasons, though I do think she did it with the best of intentions. It also provided much amusement though I would not ridicule her and I think she should be lauded and not mocked at all.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/cecilia-gimenez-monkey-christ-mural-dies-spain
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TIL someone made an actual *opera* based on the botched #EcceHomo art restoration
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/cecilia-gimenez-monkey-christ-mural-dies-spain
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In the summer of 2012,a Spanish woman tried to restore a small #EcceHomo fresco
-#EcceHomo is an artistic motif and a Latin phrase in reference to the presentation of #Jesús after the Roman torturers scourged him and crowned his head with thorns- at Santuario de Misericordia near her hometown of #Borja.
Disaster of the restoration of fresco is visible but now the woman is the protagonist
in #AndrewFlack's #BeholdTheMan tragicomedy opera about #MonkeyChrist fresco now premiering in #LasVegas,USA