Aftermath: Full Story of the Elderly Spanish Woman who destroyed 19th century Church fresco: Demanded Money and Claimed Copyrights.

Aftermath: The Reaction on Internet.

What followed after the elderly woman in Spain who messed up and destroyed a 19th century church fresco with her restoration attempts that she undertook without permission in August 2012 is even more fascinating.

Read here the full story- Full Story of the Elderly Spanish Woman who destroyed 19th century Church fresco: Demanded Money and Claimed Copyrights.

What followed it was Epic..

Overnight interest in it exploded. The painting became an sensation when pictures of her amateur 'restoration' hit the internet and sparked a craze for copycat 'restorations', mocked-up purely for comic purposes online.

Many of Leonardo Da Vinci's most iconic creations have been given the botched restoration treatment; with the Mona Lisa's famously enigmatic smile obscured by Jimienez's work.

Masterpieces made-over: The Mona Lisa's famous smile is hidden behind the rendition of Jesus, left, while Edvard Munch's subject really has something to scream about in this altered version of the masterpiece, right

The handiwork of Cecilia Jiminez has made its way onto The Last Supper,
by Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci

Jokers on the web also replaced the face of the baby in the Renaissance master's Madonna and Child with the face from the fresco, and transformed Jesus and all twelve of his apostles in The Last Supper.

A Twitter account was also set up under the name of Fresco Jesus which got over 4,000 followers in few days. 

Initial reports suggested the elderly woman took it upon herself to alter the artwork - which had been damaged by moisture in the church - without asking for permission.

But the 80-year-old has since said the priest had given her the go-ahead to carry out her repair job.

Spot the difference: Internet jokers have made a not-so-subtle change to Da Vinci's Madonna and Child

Read here the full story- Full Story of the Elderly Spanish Woman who destroyed 19th century Church fresco: Demanded Money and Claimed Copyrights.

Full Story of the Elderly Spanish Woman who destroyed 19th century Church fresco: Demanded Money and Claimed Copyrights.

This is a surprising story of an old woman in Spain who just messed up!

An elderly woman in Spain messed up and destroyed a 19th century church fresco, The Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) with her restoration attempts that she undertook without permission in August 2012.

Before and after...

Ecce Homo by 19th-century painter Elías García Martínez on the walls of the church of Santuario de Misericordia Photo: gawker.com

The Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) in the Sanctuary of Mercy church in Borja, Spain, is a fresco painted circa 1930 by the Spanish painter Elías García Martínez depicting Jesus crowned with thorns. Both the subject and style are typical of traditional Catholic art.

Intersetingly, Old lady's repair job on fresco becomes unlikely tourist attraction as hundreds queue to see her handiwork..

Tourists flock to see the damaged 19th century Ecce Homo fresco (right) by artist Elias Garcia Martinez at the Santuario de Misericordia de Borja Church, at Borja in Spain's Aragon region

But very surprisingly the woman who ruined Fresco Of Jesus then demanded to get paid! and above of it she claimed copyright over the reformed painting.

In September 2012, Cecilia Giménez, the Spanish woman who really messed up when she tried to restore a 19th-century fresco of Jesus demanded a piece of the action from the 2,000 or so euros ($2,600) her church had collected from tourists coming to see the ruined artwork.

Spain's El Correo reports, according to Gawker's translation, that the 80+ year-old Giménez hired lawyers to make her case. The Church also lawyered up. A court battle went on as expected.

What followed it was Epic.. Read it here

Overnight interest in it exploded. The painting became an sensation when pictures of her amateur 'restoration' hit the internet and sparked a craze for copycat 'restorations', mocked-up purely for comic purposes online.

Many of Leonardo Da Vinci's most iconic creations have been given the botched restoration treatment; with the Mona Lisa's... 

Aftermath: Full Story of the Elderly Spanish Woman who destroyed 19th century Church fresco: Demanded Money and Claimed Copyrights.