Botched Restoration facts
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The woman responsible for the botched "potato Jesus" restoration receives 49% of all of the church's souvenir sales featuring the image.
The restoration of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling was actually botched. They mistakenly removed carbon black on the ceiling which was assumed to be pollution but was actually used as tint - making the restored frescoes far brighter than they should be.
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The botched restoration painting of Jesus, ecce homo, done by an 83 year old woman, in a church in Borja, Spain, has provided a miraculous boost in tourism to the town.
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The totally botched "restoration" of the Ecce Homo in 2012 has actually proven to be a tourist boon for the church.
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The Vatican botched the restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescos during the 1980s, irreparably stripping away layers of shading and detail from Michelangelo's masterpiece.
