{"id":30275,"date":"2012-12-14T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T14:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=30275"},"modified":"2012-12-14T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T14:18:11","slug":"spanish-frescoecce-homo-fresco-restorer-for-the-want-of-ebay-charity-sale-30275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/spanish-frescoecce-homo-fresco-restorer-for-the-want-of-ebay-charity-sale-30275\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Fresco:Ecce Homo fresco restorer ! for the want of eBay charity sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/spanish-ruined-fresco-ecce-homo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30291\" title=\"spanish-ruined-fresco-ecce-homo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/spanish-ruined-fresco-ecce-homo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/spanish-ruined-fresco-ecce-homo.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/spanish-ruined-fresco-ecce-homo-280x176.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/spanish-ruined-fresco-ecce-homo-572x360.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>The would-be Spanish artist Celia Gimenez responsible for the \u2018restoration\u2019 of the Ecce Homo fresco in a small town church is auctioning off one of her paintings on eBay for charity.<\/h1>\n<p>Celia Gimenez is selling off her oil painting \u201cBorja&#8217;s Wine Cellar&#8221; and the bidding has feverishly reached $808, twice the starting price. The sale ends on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The description of the lot on eBay notes that proceedings from the sale will be transferred to the Catholic charity organization Caritas.<\/p>\n<p>Celia Gimenez, 80, became a media sensation in August after she took it upon herself to restore a fresco of Christ in a church in the northern Spanish agricultural town of Borja, ruining the original and making Christ look more like an ape, than a man.<\/p>\n<p>Her \u2018work\u2019 became notorious across the world, with enthusiasts launching sales of souvenirs and t-shirts with the images of Gimenez\u2019s work. The fresco itself became a popular tourist attraction prompting the use of the picture on t-shirts, wine labels and souvenirs.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The would-be Spanish artist Celia Gimenez responsible for the \u2018restoration\u2019 of the Ecce Homo fresco in a small town church is auctioning off one of her paintings on eBay for charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,1,118,14],"tags":[41103,41098,41101,41102,13958,41100,41096,32221,41094,41099,41095,41093,41097],"class_list":["post-30275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-caritas","tag-celia-gimenez","tag-celia-gimenez-paintings","tag-christ-in-church","tag-ebay","tag-ebay-charity","tag-ebay-charity-sale","tag-ecce-homo","tag-ecce-homo-fresco","tag-ecce-homo-restoration","tag-restorer","tag-sapnish-fresco","tag-spanish-artist-celia-gimenez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}