{"id":14998,"date":"2017-01-22T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14998"},"modified":"2017-01-22T05:09:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T10:09:11","slug":"the-desecration-of-ecce-homo-may-have-saved-a-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-desecration-of-ecce-homo-may-have-saved-a-town\/","title":{"rendered":"The Desecration Of Ecce Homo May Have Saved A Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/012217_1003_TheDesecrat1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The disastrous &#8220;restoration&#8221; of the Ecce Homo, shown above, went viral in 2012. Kaushik wrote about the surprisingly positive aftermath:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 1930 painting was thought to be of &#8220;little artistic importance&#8221; which is probably why an 83-year-old amateur was allowed to fix it when it started flaking.<\/li>\n<li>The global reaction to the effort sent the artist into depression.<\/li>\n<li>Since then however the town that hosts it has become a tourist hotspot. Travelers from around the world stop to look at, and take photos with, the mess of a portrait.<\/li>\n<li>A comic opera about the painting&#8217;s story is in the works.<\/li>\n<li>Sales of &#8220;ironic&#8221; merchandise such as mugs, wines, and posters depicting the botched repair job, have saved a town that was dealing with an economic crisis before the notoriety.<\/li>\n<li>Having risen from the depths of depression, the artist that made the fateful decision to restore the painting is owed 49% of the money from souvenir sales.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amusingplanet.com\/2017\/01\/ecce-homo-botched-painting-that-saved.html\">Amusing Planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disastrous &#8220;restoration&#8221; of the Ecce Homo, shown above, went viral in 2012. Kaushik wrote about the surprisingly positive aftermath: The 1930 painting was thought to be of &#8220;little artistic importance&#8221; which is probably why an 83-year-old amateur was allowed to fix it when it started flaking. The global reaction to the effort sent the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/012217_1003_TheDesecrat1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15010,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions\/15010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}