A very lucrative botch-up: The 82-year-old behind the ‘worst restoration in history’ tells how the disaster made her a fortune.

Enjoy. An extract:

The result has been described as the ‘worst restoration in history’. Somehow Cecilia Gimenez, in her attempt to freshen it up, managed to make Jesus look like a very hairy monkey, with a strange smudge in place of a beatific expression.

A quote from the lady:

I thought I knew how to restore it, but the paint ran.

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