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Woman Who Ruined Fresco Of Jesus Now Wants To Be Paid
NPR ^
| September 20, 2012
| by Mark Memmott
Posted on 09/20/2012 10:37:31 AM PDT by 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?
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; History; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: art; fresco; history
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To: a fool in paradise
This obnoxious woman should just be grateful that she isn’t getting sued.
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:39:46 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Daffynition
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:40:37 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:41:04 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
To: a fool in paradise
The church should countersue with a request for a directed verdict that they can condemn her eternal soul to hell.
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:41:14 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:42:04 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:44:35 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
To: a fool in paradise
question: who owns it? her or the church?
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:46:47 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:49:27 AM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:49:43 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: a fool in paradise
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..
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:49:55 AM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: a fool in paradise
Mr. Bean......Whistlers Mother... Nuff said. :)
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:50:17 AM PDT
by
Sporke
(USS Iowa BB-61)
To: a fool in paradise
mrs. Bean?
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:50:55 AM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
To: evets; a fool in paradise
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:53:00 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: a fool in paradise
To: Sporke
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:54:45 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: a fool in paradise
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.
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:55:40 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Record high turnout is our hope for sending 0bama home. Pray hard!!!)
To: ScottinVA
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"
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posted on
09/20/2012 11:02:48 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all - Aristotle)
To: Daffynition; Salamander
It's a Dan Lacey "Pancake" Painting.
(Except the pancake slipped of the head and it now ~is~ the face.)
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posted on
09/20/2012 11:09:56 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: Daffynition
lol, you’re on a roll, Daffynition!
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posted on
09/20/2012 11:14:13 AM PDT
by
Girlene
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