The disastrous Ecce Homo painting restoration, also known as “Potato Jesus”, refers to the botched restoration of a century-old Spanish devotional fresco. An elderly woman named Cecilia Jiménez, acted as the amateur art restorer. The result of the botched restoration spawned a highly viral internet meme, where the trashed painting was edited in to other famous works of art, movie scenes and probably into a bunch of cat and FAIL images.
Jiménez wanted to restore a damaged fresco created by Spanish painter Elías García Martínez named Ecce Homo (“Behold the Man”), in the Santuario de Misericordia Church in the Spanish town Borja. According to the church, Jiménez restored the painting without permission.
The original, and Jiménez's "fixed" version:
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