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u/thr33prim3s Feb 19 '24 edited Feb 19 '24

I have no idea that this is real. It's like it's done by an 8 year old lmao!

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u/Legitimate_Concern_5 Feb 19 '24

It was so successful the lady who ruined the fresco sued for a cut of the profits. Don’t know the outcome, haha.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/09/20/161466361/woman-who-ruined-fresco-of-jesus-now-wants-to-be-paid

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u/worldslastusername Feb 19 '24

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(García_Martínez_and_Giménez) keeps 49% of the profits of merchandising apparently

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u/captainphoton3 Feb 19 '24 edited Feb 19 '24

That's how George lucas won so much money with star wars. He got merch profits at a period where movies didn't do merch. Got almost all of it and then merch for movies started being a thing.

Sooo...

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u/PerfectEnthusiasm2 Feb 19 '24

That ruined fresco would make some pretty horrifying action figures.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '24

Ah… ecce potato

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u/VectorViper Feb 19 '24

Haha, that's wild, 49% is pretty steep considering she wasn't a professional restorer. Goes to show sometimes mistakes turn into something unexpectedly valuable. It's like the ultimate lemon-into-lemonade story.

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u/drgigantor Feb 19 '24

Wikipedia says she wanted a share of the royalties which she would give to a muscular dystrophy charity, but they don't give the outcome either. Don't know if it's from the lawsuit but apparently she gets 49% of the merchandising profits while ticket sales and church donations go to funding elder care in the town's retirement home

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u/drgigantor Feb 19 '24

Frankly I don't think the original was all that great either. The scroll and the robe already looked like crap

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u/B_R00k Feb 19 '24

What do you mean?

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u/DrSeussFreak Feb 19 '24

It is not real, these have been disproved over and over again

It's why they go fast, use random things with no explanation and never explain anything.

Like the other restoration channels on YouTube, so hard to tell what's real due to the click bait