Drawing Ecce Homo "Orangutan Version"

804 views · Published 27 August 2012 · 1:52 · Indexed 25 September 2026

Channel: Saiyan Level · 2012 · Film & Animation

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"A couple of weeks ago, the Centro de Estudios Borjanos in Borja, Spain, received a donation from the granddaughter of 19th-century painter Elías García Martínez. At the time, the Centro knew of only one painting by Martínez in Borja — Ecce Homo, a fresco on the walls of the church of Santuario de Misericordia...The restored version is apparently the work of an octogenarian neighbor of the church, who, noticing the damage to the painting, took it upon herself to restore the painting "with good intentions" but "without asking permission," as culture councillor Juan Maria de Ojeda put it. It became clear to the amateur restorer — quickly, one imagines — that "she had gotten out of hand," and she confessed to local authorities...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.

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