After the Ecce Homo Monkey Christ came the Tintin St George. The latest artworks to fall prey to well-intentioned amateur restoration are wooden statues of the Virgin and Child, the Virgin and Child with St Anne, and St Peter, in the hamlet of Rañadorio. “They’ve used the kind of industrial enamel paint they sell for painting anything and absolutely garish and absurd colours,” Luis Suárez Saro told the Guardian. “I’m not a professional painter but I’ve always liked painting and the statues really needed painting,” she told El Comercio newspaper. “I think it’s just ignorance and a lack of sensitivity towards art in its original state,” he said.

Source: The Guardian September 07, 2018 14:08 UTC