Petition launched to save 'world's worst restoration'

[cynatnite]

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Ironic art fans have launched a petition to save the "world's worst restoration": a retouched, century-old church painting of Christ that has become an international joke.

Cecilia Gimenez, described as being in her 80s, has won global fame with her horribly botched impromptu attempt to restore an oil painting of Christ crowned with thorns, his sorrowful gaze raised to heaven.

The "restored" painting looks like a pale monkey's face surrounded by fur, with mishapen eyes and nose, and a crooked smudge for a mouth, a style some wits have compared to Picasso's.

Titled "Ecce Homo" (Behold the Man), the original was painted in oil in 1910 directly onto a column in the Iglesia del Santuario de Misericordia church in Borja, northeastern Spain.

http://news.yahoo.com/petition-launched-save-worlds-worst-restoration-164219945.html

[a geek named Bob]

1. I'm now waiting

For someone to add in Car chase scenes and booty-shorts clad Gogo girls to either Machiavelli's The Prince, or to Newton's Method of Fluxions

...Sigh...

[HopeHoops]

2. Some people shouldn't do certain jobs. E-GADS!