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KNOW // Elderly Spanish Woman Tries to Restore 19th Century Fresco
Jarrett Moran

Apparently this is what happens when amateur art restoration gets out of hand. On the left, the original fresco by 19th-century painter Elías García Martínez; on the right, how it looked after an elderly Spanish woman tried her hand at restoring it. Here’s more on Gawker and Hyperallergic, as well as a (let’s be honest, pretty funny) BBC interview with the woman.