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Stupid Photo of the Day: A Woman Tries to Restore a Famous Painting of Jesus and Fails Miserably

8/22/2012

A few weeks ago in Spain, the granddaughter of a 19th-century Spanish painter named Elias Garcia Martinez donated money to a church in Borja, Spain.  She wanted to restore one of her grandfather's famous paintings of Jesus on their walls. 

There was only one problem.  An 80-year-old member of the church heard about the plan to restore the painting, and took it upon HERSELF to do the touch-up job, without permission.  And she turned Jesus into a hilarious and childish mixture of an alien, a monkey, and an Eskimo.  The woman turned herself in to local authorities, but it's doubtful anything will happen to her. 

(Gawker)

Here's the original photo, the photo before the restoration, and the "after."