Cecilia Gimenez, from Borja in Spain fancied herself to be competent in art restoration and undertook to restore The Ecce Homo (Behold The Man) fresco of Christ painted on the Borja church wall by Elias Garcia Martinez in 1930.
On the left is the portrait in it's decaying but pre-restored state and on the right what it looked like after Cecilia 'improved' it.
See: "WORST RESTORATION IN HISTORY"
It's a bit of a laugh really. Some might say that Cecilia's rendition is closer to what an actual Galilean Semite Jesus would have looked like.
A BBC series, in 2001 attempted to show what the true race and face of Jesus might have been, and documented in the Son of God documentary series. Forensic anthropologists constructed a head and face that suggested Jesus would have had a broad face and large nose, and differed significantly from the traditional depictions of Jesus in renaissance art.
This and Cecilia's renditions are likely more exact than the silly, prissy and romantic images that adorn churches, Catechisms and the imagination of Catholics,
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Is it a matter of faith that you believe the forensic scientists?
No, just observation, reading history and sheer common sense.
The same reason why I am Catholic then.
What's that other world you live in like Robert?
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