Artist Behind Viral ‘Beast Jesus’ Restoration Dies at 94

Cecilia Giménez Zueco—the woman behind Beast Jesus, the idiosyncratic attempt at art restoration that became an internet sensation in mid-2012—has died, just a few days short of her 95th birthday.

Giménez became famous for her attempt at restoring Ecce Homo, a fresco by Spanish painter Elías García Martínez. Martinez painted the image of Jesus in a crown of thorns directly onto the wall of the church in the small town of Borja, Zaragoza, sometime around 1930. By the early…