Khurram Wadee ✅Dec 30

#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

#Art #EcceHomo

Pax Ahimsa GethenDec 30

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

#EcceMono #MonkeyChrist

Cecilia Giménez, famed for ‘Monkey Christ’ mural mishap, dies at 94

Spanish woman’s attempted restoration of church artwork was widely mocked but became lucrative tourist attraction

The Guardian
El Club De Los Físicos MuertosSep 29, 2023
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