How Not To Touch Up A Masterpiece

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Katie Kindelan reports on an elderly woman's attempt to restore a 19th century fresco by Elias Garcia Martinez:

Her handiwork, or lack thereof, was discovered after the painter's granddaughter donated the work, "Ecce Homo," to the archive of religious paintings housed at the Centro de Estudios Borjano, also in Borja. When officials from the center went to examine the work at the church a few weeks ago, they found it was not as Martinez had left it, the U.K.'s Telegraph reported.

Apparently, she came clean:

Juan Maria Ojeda, the city councilor in charge of cultural affairs, told the Spanish newspaper El Pais that the woman turned herself in and admitted causing the damage when she realized it had "gotten out of hand."

(Image: Centro de Estudios Borjanos)