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Early Medieval Church in Rome Draws Attention After Fresco Restoration - Medievalists.net

San Lorenzo in Lucina, a medieval church, drew renewed attention after conservation of a modern fresco whose figure was likened to Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni.

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Cecilia Gimenez's botched Monkey Christ became a global meme. The real marvel was the humble, graceful woman behind it | Sam Jones

Very few of us find fame quite as late, or quite as brutally, as Cecilia Gimenez did in the summer of 2012. The Spanish amateur artist was already 81 when her efforts to restore a decent, if unremarkable, fresco of the scourged Christ brought her a renown that almost destroyed her. Almost overnight, Gimenez, who died on Monday at the age of 94, was stripped of her quiet existence in the north-eastern Spanish town of Borja,

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Early Medieval Church in Rome Draws Attention After Fresco Restoration - Medievalists.net

Cecilia Gimenez's botched Monkey Christ became a global meme. The real marvel was the humble, graceful woman behind it | Sam Jones

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