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[–] 60 points 7 months ago (15 children)

LOL! Yeah, that's about it..

On the other hand, thank you for posting this picture. I actually just spent 15 minutes going down the Ecce Homo rabbit hole. What a story, this disaster of a restoration turned into an absolute boon for the town.

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  • [–] 40 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

    Same!

    I had no idea the woman actually was in the middle of her restoration, left for a two week holiday, and came back to a verifiable shit storm.

    Edit: oh and she had permission to attempt the restoration!

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    was in the middle of her restoration

    I mean, no restoration that I've seen is done like that, by repainting over large swathes of the original.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    So? She had permission to do it. The hate she received was completely unjustified

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Did she say upfront that she was gonna do absolute garbage of a job, that not even a first-grade college student would do?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    No one knows the level of job she was gonna do because she didn't finish!

    You are being extremely rude to a person that in beloved in the town right now. The hate was not from the fellow neighbours, was internationally. If you wanna criticise some one criticise the priest in change of the church that gave her permission to do so.

    The priest even attempted to cover the painting to save her of the hate, in proof that he still was wanting to protect her, but the mayor of the town decided not to, since the amount of tourism actually brought money to the town.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Did you miss the fact that she redrew over the entire painting? What she did is not restoration in any sort of way, so it doesn't matter what the end result might've been. Watch any videos on how actual restoration is done.

    What you're saying is “yeah she was hired to decorate my cake and instead she shat all over it, but we don't know the job she'd do if she were allowed to finish”.

    She was obviously mentally deranged, and only a very simple-minded person would defend what she's done. The priest was evidently protecting the handicapped woman from ridicule and her ‘work’ from being displayed. The fact that the shit cake is now a tourist attraction changes none of this.

    You're straight up roleplaying this meme:

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    It's like that scene from Mr. Bean. Or was it Johnny English?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    Pretty sure it was that Mr Bean movie where he goes to America. I think the premise was Bean was accompanying a painting from England (they sent him to get rid of him for a while) and at some point he gets something on the painting, tries to clean it, and paint comes off, too. Then he fixes it and his host either starts crying or trying to attack him.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    I think that was Johnny English...

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago

    I wonder how nvidia's PR department is feeling about the popularity of this meme...

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Lol
    Do you think they're telling developers to make a slider in new games' graphics settings?

    DLSS5

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This is perfect, OP.

    For those unleashed uninitiated, it's called ecce homo, I believe. There's a great background at Wikipedia as usual

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Jokes aside, I still can't believe the disaster in that image. I'm pretty sure I could have done a better job with that painting, and I'm far from qualified for that job.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    What's wild is that they've decided to keep "monkey jesus" for its cultural significance. The painting could be professionally restored but it will remain that way forever

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  • [+] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    I invite anyone curious enough to look up the history behind that restoration.

    While it is certainly an attempt it was one born out of love and imo people are just either ignorant (understandably tho) or outright cruel.

    Rural Spain is full of historical monuments in ruins and falling to dust because nobody cares. Not the state nor the church. Here at least someone did, ffs.

    It gets me emottional because the ammount of hate that poor old woman got for genuinely trying to do good in her community.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Nope, its perfect!

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