Spain's celebrity restorer shows her own work

By Giles Tremlett
Updated December 12 2012 - 1:18pm, first published 12:40pm
Fame calling ... Cecilia Gimenez's original restoration of the Ecce Homo in her local church.
Fame calling ... Cecilia Gimenez's original restoration of the Ecce Homo in her local church.

MADRID: Fame has come late to Cecilia Gimenez, an 80-year-old Spanish painter whose disastrous attempt at restoring a 19th-century Ecce Homo on the walls of her local church spread her name around the globe over the northern summer.

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