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Spanish church mural ruined by brush strokes of octogenarian restorer
Ecce Homo painting by Elías García Martínez was unremarkable until transformation by well-intentioned but cack-handed amateurSomewhere 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 small church in the city was looking a bit faded, and decided to freshen it up a...
Published By: The Guardian - Wednesday, 22 August, 2012