The fresco - before and after
An elderly Italian woman appears to have destroyed a valuable artwork after she took it upon herself to 'restore' the crumbling painting.
The image, painted by 19th-century artist Elías García Martínez, had reportedly been deteriorating for some time.
The woman in her 80s, a neighbour of the church in which the fresco is located, attempted to restore the painting 'without permission but with good intentions'.
But a donation from the artist's granddaughter was about to fix that when the neighbour got in first to have a crack at fixing it up.
The results were not quite as she expected, however.
Once the budding artist realised she was in over her head, she confessed to local authorities.
A professional restorer is reportedly now set to assess the damage and see if the fresco can be saved.
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lol maria, exactly... poor jesu left without a mouth... awwe i still think it looks kind of cute... she/ the painter was probably trying to save the church some money...
oh wow... that is a big difference from painting 1 to painting 2 lol
i love love love artwork...
and well i think this re-worked piece is kind of cute , i can feel that lady was only trying to help save the picture... aww bless her for trying... lol
Most valuable paintings that has vanished over the years has been known in secret circles to end wowended up in the Vatican vault. So i think this is a cover up thinking an old woman painted over it to look like a stupid mistake done by an old woman.
Every detail at the back ground and the headline and hair position is all wrong. Something not right about this story on the front of the yahoo 7 front line news today 22 of august 2012 in australia
Yes cleaning up some scaling paint wouldnt have revealed the changes in the works. Thw whole top area left and right corners show these arent the same picture that has been worked on.