Cecilia Giménez has gone to meet her monkey—er—maker.

RIP
#EcceMono

So what I'm hearing is that there's now room for a new generation of professional art restorers.

Cecilia Giménez, famed for ‘Monkey Christ’ mural mishap, dies at 94 Spanish woman’s attempted restoration of church artwork was widely mocked but became lucrative tourist attraction

TIL someone made an actual *opera* based on the botched #EcceHomo art restoration

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/cecili...

#EcceMono #MonkeyChrist

Incompetent art restorer turned viral celebrity Cecilia Giménez has died aged 94. Her most infamous work was a well-intentioned but horrific restoration of a painting of Christ on the wall of a Spanish church.
#eccemono

No puedo creer que nadie haya dicho que en el #sobrenoruego estaba el #eccemono #eccehomo. Anda los que se os da bien id haciendo el montaje