ultra-prime Spanish fresco restoration botched by amateur 23 August 2012Last updated at 06:50 ET Cecilia Gimenez: "Everybody who came into the church could see I was painting" An elderly parishioner has stunned Spanish cultural officials with an alarming and unauthorised attempt to restore a prized Jesus Christ fresco. Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) by Elias Garcia Martinez has held pride of place in the Sanctuary of Mercy Church near Zaragoza for more than 100 years. The woman took her brush to it after years of deterioration due to moisture. Cultural officials said she had the best intentions and hoped it could be properly restored. Donation Cecilia Gimenez, who is in her 80s, was reportedly upset at the way the fresco had deteriorated and took it on herself to "restore" the image. She claimed to have had the permission of the priest to carry out the job. "(The) priest knew it! BBC Europe correspondent Christian Fraser says the delicate brush strokes of Elias Garcia Martinez have been buried under a haphazard splattering of paint. 'Good intentions'
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JEN ZEE ART! The Library of Congress' Photostream vinodrams - News Amazing 70-Year-Old Color Photos Sometimes looking at old photographs makes me think of this exchange between comic-strip hero Calvin and his dad: Calvin : Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then? Dad : Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. As absurd as it sounds, there is a kind of psychological truth to it -- having seen mostly black-and-white pictures of the world pre-1960 or so (I'm not counting Technicolor movies), I begin to imagine the past unfolding in monochrome. But this really takes the cake : the Library of Congress has just created a Flickr page , on which they've posted nearly 2,000 color slides -- many of them hauntingly beautiful. But rather than sending you off to pick through thousands of these photos on Flickr -- something of a laborious process -- we've compiled our favorites here. A boilermaker at a Chicago train yard, 1942 Boy near Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942 "Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif.
Alex Drummond Illustration Dinosaur Art: The World’s Greatest Paleoart -- exclusive excerpt There are many forms of art –- still life, abstract, landscape, digital, cubism, marine, aviation, splatter, modern, photography etc but chances are, few people know what "paleoart" is. Well, simply put, it is the illustration of prehistoric life. Its practitioners combine an understanding of such broad disciplines as anatomy, geology and botany to open windows onto the ancient past, bringing to life as best they can organisms from across the planet’s four billion-year history. Everything from jellyfish to trilobites to mammoths to the first single-celled organisms – and, of course, dinosaurs. Dinosaur Art is a collection -- and celebration -- of some the finest purveyors of paleoart. My primary reason in assembling this host of talent was to give them a voice. Here’s a selection of some of my favorite images, from the book. -- Steve White, editor of Dinosaur Art Douglas Henderson I love the lighting on this. John Conway Tarbosaurus is a very close relative to T-rex. Luis Rey Raul Martin