A repaired sculpture has been ridiculed as 'cartoon-like' in the latest case of a Spanish art restoration gone wrong.
The statue was recently unveiled in Palencia city centre in Spain's northern Castile and Leon region and almost immediately drew comparisons with the botched Ecce Homo fresco that was infamously touched up by a cleaning lady eight years ago.
'It's more like a cartoon head than the artistic head of one of Palencia's most emblematic buildings,' local painter Antonio Guzman wrote in a Facebook post alongside before and after shots of the statue.
The statue was replaced after the original came off during restoration work on the building it is part of, Spanish news site as.com reported.
The statue is part of a building that was reportedly commissioned in 1919 by Alejandro Najera, president of the Catholic Agrarian Federation, under the direction of architect Jacobo Romero.
The protected structure opened in 1923 and has since become a key fixture of the city. It's currently home to a branch of the Unicaja bank.
The statue was recently unveiled in Palencia city centre in Spain's northern Castile and Leon region and almost immediately drew comparisons with the botched Ecce Homo fresco that was infamously touched up by a cleaning lady eight years ago.
'It's more like a cartoon head than the artistic head of one of Palencia's most emblematic buildings,' local painter Antonio Guzman wrote in a Facebook post alongside before and after shots of the statue.
The statue was replaced after the original came off during restoration work on the building it is part of, Spanish news site as.com reported.
The statue is part of a building that was reportedly commissioned in 1919 by Alejandro Najera, president of the Catholic Agrarian Federation, under the direction of architect Jacobo Romero.
The protected structure opened in 1923 and has since become a key fixture of the city. It's currently home to a branch of the Unicaja bank.
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Source: Daily Mail, AS
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