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[Photo of the Day] Spanish Botched Painting

An elderly woman in Spain has stunned officials with a botched attempt to restore a valuable fres...
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10.30 23 Aug 2012


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[Photo of the Day] Spanish Bot...

[Photo of the Day] Spanish Botched Painting

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10.30 23 Aug 2012


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An elderly woman in Spain has stunned officials with a botched attempt to restore a valuable fresco.

The century old painting of Jesus was in her local church but was fading and had turned white in places.

The woman  who’s in her 80′s decided to “fix” it herself without speaking to authorities.

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The face now looks as though it has a cartoon style nose and a crooked smudge for a mouth:


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