naive spanish artist restores jesus painting - pope not amused

[NovaKart]

To me the restoration looks like a fat woman who had a stroke.

 

[bhsup]

"out of her depth" - I can't think of where an elderly religious lady living in a backwater area wouldn't be. Maybe in making potato stew or knitting sacks.

Arrogant much? She probably has more life experience and wisdom in her pinky than you do in your whole body. She made a mistake, that's all.

Young freaking whippersnapper. GET OFF MY LAWN!

 

[aelf]

One more after all the mistakes she's made in her life burning old MacDonald's dinner. Yawn.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I feel pretty bad for this lady. She had good intentions, and now the entire internet is mocking her mistake.

How did that saying about the "road to hell" go again?

 

[Virote_Considon]

I don't know what everyone's laughing at. There a a bajillion images like the original fresco so it's kinda tired old hat by now. This restoration is much better, much more unique.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

more unique.

Just getting in first with everyones favorite correction.

 

[innonimatu]

All I see is a woman who longs for a return of Habsburg rule.

That wins the thread!



And the original painting was garbage anyway. It's like artists around here spent four centuries mass producing those things. No real loss, I don't see why this even made the news.

 

[Borachio]

Paint me stupid, but I don't get the Habsburg joke. I know it's Spain and that...but still.

I like(d) the original. Which is only ~100 years old. It's a significant loss for this out-of-the-way place.

 

[Yeekim]

Paint me stupid, but I don't get the Habsburg joke. I know it's Spain and that...but still.

The jaw?

 

[Borachio]

Oh. Prognathism. Well, I live and learn. Didn't know this. Thanks.

 

[holy king]

Arrogant much? She probably has more life experience and wisdom in her pinky than you do in your whole body. She made a mistake, that's all.

we really dont know about that. but assuming that she's got a lot of experience because she's old is just as wrong.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Oh. Prognathism. Well, I live and learn. Didn't know this. Thanks.

Yep, prognathism, AKA Habsburg jaw or Austrian jaw. The world sub-champion being Charles II of Spain, the ultimate product after centuries of interbreeding.

The champion is this guy of course:

 

[gangleri2001]

 

[Angst]

I saw it, it's such a hilarious painting... I know I shouldn't laugh, it's just so awesome, this.

I'm baffled that the Spanish want to correct her mistake though. This is a classic. I know it's a silly thing to say, but it's a seriously expressive painting. Everyone just "gets" it.

People all over the world have their own ideas of how Jesus looks. In Europe he's often portrayed as being European with blonde or brown hair while in Africa he's been portrayed as a sub-Saharan African. Who are we to say, without the benefit of having been there, that we know for certain what he looked like? I think that the possibility he actually was in fact some sort of slanty-faced potato monkey with alien eyes is a possibility that scholars need to take more seriously.

Can you link such an African Jesus? I'd love to see him.

 

[holy king]

 

[Borachio]

I'm beginning to get neck ache looking at both the before and after pictures.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

The real question being: Did Jesus wear dreadlocks?

 

[holy king]

well, did he ever wash his hair?

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

well, did he ever wash his hair?

I'd hope so. Annointing was quite big back then.

 

[Borachio]

Inuit women used to wash their hair with stale urine. Is that any help?

so said this man