{"id":146856,"date":"2018-06-26T18:59:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T18:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/spanish-church-slammed-over-frightening-sculpture-restoration\/"},"modified":"2018-06-26T18:59:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T18:59:47","slug":"spanish-church-slammed-over-frightening-sculpture-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/spanish-church-slammed-over-frightening-sculpture-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish church slammed over &#8216;frightening&#8217; sculpture restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The St George sculpture before and after restoration\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/16AE5\/production\/_102210929_36199768_1720154211352923_543099507932397568_n.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  ArtUs Restauraci\u00f3n Patrimonio<figcaption>Image caption                                      The St George sculpture before and after the restoration attempt                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A lick of paint can do a lot to lift a drab interior, but when it comes to historic sculptures it turns out the job is best left to experts.<\/p>\n<p>That is what a church in Spain discovered after hiring an arts and crafts teacher to freshen up a 16th century wooden sculpture of St George.<\/p>\n<p>Images shared on social media showed the warrior with a transformed pink face and bright coloured armour.<\/p>\n<p>Cultural officials have blasted the botched attempt as &quot;frightening&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We cannot tolerate more attacks on our cultural heritage,&quot; Spain&#039;s art conservation association (ACRE) said in a statement. &quot;It shows a frightening lack of training of the kind required for this sort of job.&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spanish fresco restoration botched by amateur<\/li>\n<li>&#039;Monkey Christ&#039; fresco boosts tourism<\/li>\n<li>Jesus fresco &#039;destroyer&#039; demands royalties<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The parish priest in the northern town of Estella simply wanted the sculpture to be cleaned and did not intend for it to be restored, the Efe news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>But the move has enraged local officials who are demanding to know why they were not informed of the church&#039;s plans.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The council wasn&#039;t told and neither was the regional government of Navarre,&quot; the town&#039;s Mayor Koldo Leoz told The Guardian newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They&#039;ve used plaster and the wrong kind of paint and it&#039;s possible that the original layers of paint have been lost. This is an expert job it should have been done by experts,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The group in charge of the project - Karmacolor - reportedly uploaded a video to Facebook showing every stage of the project but later deleted it.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What a great loss,&quot; one Facebook user commented underneath a photograph of the sculpture. &quot;Prison sentences would prevent these attacks on our heritage,&quot; another said.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  AFP \/ Centre de Estudios Borjano<figcaption>Image caption                                      Three images showing the original, deteriorated, and &quot;restored&quot; version of the the Ecce Homo fresco                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Others compared it to the now infamous attempt to restore the Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) fresco of Jesus Christ in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Elderly parishioner Cecilia Gimenez took her brush to the 19th century artwork following years of deterioration due to moisture, but after much ridicule the result was labelled &quot;Monkey Christ&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Some positives did come from her efforts however, as the town drew thousands more visitors eager to see her &quot;restoration&quot; and she even had her own art exhibited.<\/p>\n<p>Gimenez even starred in a music video for a song she inspired which told the story of her attempt from a more sympathetic angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright ArtUs Restauraci\u00f3n PatrimonioImage caption The St George sculpture before and after the restoration attempt A lick of paint can do a lot to lift a drab interior, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}