Woman Who Ruined Fresco Of Jesus Now Wants To Be Paid

NPR ^ | September 20, 2012 | by Mark Memmott

[a fool in paradise]

Cecilia Giménez, the Spanish woman who really messed up when she tried to restore a 19th-century fresco of Jesus, now wants a piece of the action from the 2,000 or so euros ($2,600) her church has collected from tourists coming to see the ruined artwork.

Spain's El Correo reports, according to Gawker's translation, that the 80+-year-old Giménez has hired lawyers to make her case. A court battle is expected. Ars Technica says the church has also lawyered up.

As Eyder wrote last month, by the time Giménez was done with her attempt at restoration, the image was being likened to a werewolf. But news reports in recent weeks also showed that her work has some fans — such as the online Beast-Jesus Restoration Society — and that it is drawing tourists to the Santuario de Misericordia church in Borja.

So now, it appears, we're at the stage of the story where the inevitable legal actions begin.

ONLINE POLL (at the NPR site) Which raises a question: Do you think Cecilia Giménez should get a share of the donations given to her church by those coming to see the fresco she ruined?

[a fool in paradise]

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This obnoxious woman should just be grateful that she isn’t getting sued.

[a fool in paradise]

[a fool in paradise]

[Gaffer]

The church should countersue with a request for a directed verdict that they can condemn her eternal soul to hell.

[a fool in paradise]

[a fool in paradise]

[camle]

question: who owns it? her or the church?

[evets]

[Daffynition]

[hosepipe]

Well we have a President that ruined a country and many want to re-elect him..
And those that DON’T want to elect the inventor of Massachusetts medical socialism instead..

Even the brightest author could not think this up..
America has entered the “CARTOON AGE”...

Whats legal is whatever the Attorney General says it is..
Color-coded Justice.. if there is any justice at all..

America has become ToonTown in a Sodom kind of way...
Even Roger Rabbit would be a better President..

[Sporke]

Mr. Bean......Whistlers Mother... Nuff said. :)

[CJ Wolf]

mrs. Bean?

[Daffynition]

[freedomlover]

[Daffynition]

[ScottinVA]

This was obviously a rather important piece of art. Did that church NOT ask to see examples of her work?

Imagine if she’d done this to an image of Moe Hammed. She’d have body parts missing by now.

[Oztrich Boy]

Well they never actually asked her to do anything.

She said "The priest could see what I was doing and made no attempt to stop me"

[shibumi]

It's a Dan Lacey "Pancake" Painting.

(Except the pancake slipped of the head and it now ~is~ the face.)

[Girlene]

lol, you’re on a roll, Daffynition!