Everyone's read about the old Spanish lady who "fixed" the 19th-century fresco in her village church. Some people have even formed the impression the job had been done by a commissioned artist. I might've thought so if the newspaper people hadn't run a large heading about the "well-intentioned" old lady above the before-and-after pictures.
(If she'd stuck to just touching up the hair, probably no one would have noticed.)
Not surprising that people took it as intentional. What's been misrepresented as "the spirit of Vatican II" seems to frown on anything that looks as if it was hard to make. Spain wasn't immune to it -- I heard of a Spanish gentleman who took one look at his newly built parish church in those days, said, "I'm not coming to Mass here" and made his family troop across town to the Cathedral for the rest of his life.
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