
The botched restoration of an 18th century Spanish church in the town Soria has left the cherubs looking like monkeys and restoration experts puzzled. El Confidencial reported Thursday that the botched restoration is the second coming of “Ecce Homo” or “Monkey Christ,” referring to another botched restoration which went viral 12 years ago. “We’re not talking about a failed restoration here; we’re talking about an assault on heritage,” Francisco Manuel Espejo, president of Spain’s Professional Association of Restorers and Conservators, said in a statement of the failed restoration. The heritage society of Soria told the Spanish paper that the restorers had not done the preliminary research into the church’s historical…