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News of the painting spread around the globe in August 2012 (the silly season [13]) on mainstream and social media, which promptly rose to the status of an internet phenomenon. BBC Europe correspondent Christian Fraser said that the result resembled a "crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic". [ 5 ]
Dubbed "the worst restoration in art history", [2] her image of Christ was swept up on social media and glorified with countless parodies and memes. [3] Shunned by her neighbors and shamed online, Cecilia slipped into despair before the incident was accepted by her community and recognized as a good deed gone wrong, prompting the realization ...
Currently, the ‘Classic Art Memes (Humor)’ project has 440.6k members from all over the globe. Originally, the group was created on Facebook nearly 3 years ago, in mid-September of 2021. To ...
The original Divine Mercy painting by Eugeniusz Kazimirowski (1934) as advised by Sister Faustina, in 2017 the image underwent renovation and restoration to its original form. The first painting was made by Eugeniusz Kazimirowski , under the supervision of Kowalska and her confessor, Sopoćko, in Vilnius .
Viewing the crucifix image as "wholly depressing", the Church, led by Cardinal Glick (George Carlin), decides to retire it, and creates Buddy Christ as a more uplifting image of Jesus Christ. [1] The icon consists of a statue of Jesus, smiling and winking while pointing at onlookers with one hand and giving the thumbs-up sign with the other hand.
A seven-alarm fire that tore through a 150-year-old church in Massachusetts miraculously spared a painting of Jesus Christ.
The work follows a typical scheme of Perugino's art. The divinity, in this case the resurrected Jesus, is depicted within a mandorla occupying the upper part of the painting, among angels. The lower part shows, above a landscape in the background, the open sarcophagus and several Roman soldiers, three of whom are sleeping and one awakened by ...
The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus by Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [2]