Cecilia Giménez, who gained notoriety in 2012 after she attempted to restore a 1930s fresco of Jesus Christ at her local church but found mockery for the repair, has died at the age of 94 The painting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cecilia Giménez in 2013 with her ‘restoration’ of Ecce Homo (c 1930): it drew tens of thousands of tourists to visit her hometown ...

Cecilia Giménez with her restoration of "Ecce Homo" in 2013 (photo by Fabián Simón ARCHDC/Alamy) Cecilia Giménez, an amateur Spanish artist most widely known for her errant restoration of a ...

Cecilia Giménez, the Spanish woman whose botched restoration of a century-old painting of Jesus Christ captured global headlines more than a decade ago, has died. She was 94. Officials in Borja, ...

Giménez international attention after she attempted to restore an old fresco. While it was immediately ridiculed at the time, the piece... Cecilia Giménez just wanted to freshen up an old painting at ...

A parishioner whose botched restoration of a treasured Jesus Christ fresco became a viral sensation has died at the age of 94. Cecilia Giménez triggered global headlines with her attempt to freshen up ...

The amateur Spanish artist who made worldwide headlines for botching the restoration of a prized painting of Jesus — earning it the nickname “Monkey Christ” — has died at 94. Cecilia Gimenez passed ...

It was, by all accounts, an unremarkable painting by an unremarkable painter tucked away in the church of an unremarkable Spanish town—Santuario de Misericordia in Borja, Zaragoza, to be precise. The ...

Cecilia Giménez just wanted to freshen up an old painting at her church in Borja, Spain. She ended up becoming an internationally known artist. The image went viral, and then became rapidly memed.