12-08-2016 18:36 via theverge.com

The botched Jesus fresco gets the opera it deserves

The life rights of Cecilia Giménez, the Spanish artist who notoriously botched an attempted restoration of Elías García Martínez's "Ecce Homo," should be a zillion dollars. In truth, I have no idea what the American songwriting duo Andrew Flack and Paul Fowler paid for them. Probably not enough, because this story is perfectly suited to be the best musical of all time!
The pair is currently working on a comic opera about Giménez's life and how the mistake that
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