Comments on: ‘Monkey Boy’ Jesus Fresco Draws Global Attention and Tourists

By: Tanjamaltija

Tanjamaltija — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:07:00 +0000

Why the fuss? It happens all the time: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120925/blogs/insults-injuries-ignorance.438313

By: Mark Skinner

Mark Skinner — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:41:00 +0000

For christ sake, don’t make it political.

By: Mark Skinner

Mark Skinner — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:30:00 +0000

It’s bloody aweful, isn’t it. Ugliest painting I’ve ever seen.

By: JorgeD

JorgeD — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:03:00 +0000

Porque la mujer pinto la pintura? Su trabaja es un disastre. Dinero o no dinero, este es un delito. La mujer necesita obtener un abogado para no va a carcel. Eventualment, la gente parara veniendo porque no sera interesante nunca mas.

By: rosario

rosario — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:16:00 +0000

Estoy de aquerdo con Natalia. Tambien pienso que es un idea horrible que una persona cambio una pintura de Jesus para midar como un mono. Tambien touristas vienen a lka eqkesia solo para vera la pintura.La hente no vienen para ir a la eqlesia para orrar. Solo vienen para ver la pintura.

By: Stephanie Johnson

Stephanie Johnson — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:03:00 +0000

Yo pienso es muy comico! Es comico que un error pueda hacer mucho dinero. Yo siento que el dibujo sea un gran error, y no parece como Jesus en absoluto. La gente estan veniendo a ver el dibujo para lo sonreirse. Yo pienso el retrato pertenecen la artista, porque no pertenecen en el museo. Pero, si el retrato esta atrando la gente, tal vez es un buen idea.

By: Rosa

Rosa — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:46:00 +0000

No estoy de acuerdo de Natalia, porque no pienso que Jimenez prepone a hacer la pintura parece como un mono. Pero, no estoy de acuerdo del hecho que las personas cargan dinero de los turistas que quieren ver la pintura. Yo siento un poco mal por Jimenez, porque ella está viejo y yo no pienso que ella prepone a hacerlo. No es justo por las personas de la iglesia a cargan dinero a ver la pintura.

By: Natalia

Natalia — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:04:00 +0000

Jesus es el persona importante mas para cristianos. Es triste cuando una persona decide cambiar una pintura de Jesus para pintar un mono. Mucha gente va a ver Ecce Mono en la iglesia a causa de is ridiculo. Le gusta que es un mono y no es Jesus. Aznar no debe tomar dinero de turistas. La iglesia es un lugar santo. Las turistas no deben perder el dinero para entrar una iglesia. Pero las turistas deben venir para ver la iglesia y no ver la pintura ridiculo.

By: Natalia

Natalia — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:04:00 +0000

By: Tomas

Tomas — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:08:00 +0000

Durante el verano, el transformacion del cuadro de Jesus estaba en las noticias todo el mundo. Estaba un asunto muy importante para la iglesia y la pintor, Cecilia Jimenez. Ese muestra que, despues de todos las anos y ideas nuevas, todavia hay mucho fe en Jesus y en el religion. El hecho que todos estas personas estan viajando para mucha distancia solomente a ver un cuadro de Jesus que estuvo cambiado muestra eso tambien. Ese articulo enfoca en el parte economico de ese asunto, que es muy importante para la iglesia de Mercy, para Jimenez, y para el pueblo de Borja en Espana. El cuadro esta ganando tanto dinero para la iglesia, y todo la turista es muy bueno para el pueblo. Muestra que en todos las anos de la iglesia grande, siempre ay dineero que esta involucrado.

By: Giuseppe Mattei

Giuseppe Mattei — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:10:00 +0000

I don’t see much of a difference from the first time around as reported in the Gospels: people crowded the streets of Jerusalem to see the disfigured Jesus carrying a cross, curious, disgusted, unimpressed, self-righteous, arrogant, while the disciples followed from afar. Jesus didn’t look good then and he doesn’t look good now: despised, man of sorrow, revolting and yet loving humanity to the bitter end. No accusation or judgment uttered from his lips. This clown (or monkey boy), ridiculous and mocked, is the wisdom of a God who has chosen solidarity with the afflicted, the poor, the marginalized and abused. Let people go and see a monkey boy: maybe their initial laughter will turn into silent meditation and spiritual consideration of how the life and death of a Judean peasant has changed the way some of us see the world and want to live their lives.

By: Rick Plumley

Rick Plumley — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:55:00 +0000

I agree with Zzoott Zzootticus, coment, “Cecila Jiminez’ horrific re-rendering”, Good intentions or not, I don’t believe she should claim rights to the mistakes she made on someone else’s property. I don’t think it should make a difference if she gives the money to charity. She defaced a priceless work of art and now wants to profit from her mistakes… Where is the spirituality in that?

By: ghadden

ghadden — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:29:00 +0000

Hi Marilyn. Marco mentions Spain in the lead, and I soc out from “Borja, Spain.” I also mention nearby Zaragoza, a Spanish city. Best

By: Marilyn Gleason

Marilyn Gleason — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:04:00 +0000

Where is Borja? Am I just supposed to know? The story never once makes it clear. Italy? Spain?

By: ghadden

ghadden — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:24:00 +0000

I would also say a couple of things in Jimenez’s defense. First, she really was trying to help out. In fact, Aznar told me that over the last several years Jimenez had touched up the same fresco on numerous occasions. The difference being that the damage she was used to ‘fixing’ was much smaller – a fleck of chipped paint or two, here and there – and so everyone was happy. This time around, some five years had passed and the loss of paint was extensive. Also, people were in fact aware that she was attempting the restoration, as she has said. And no one told her to stop. Perhaps no one bothered to look over her shoulder as she worked.

Second, apparently – and I did not interview Jimenez or her lawyers – Jimenez’s intention is to donate any of the money she might get from fresco “profits” to a charity, just as the church says it’s doing. So it doesn’t appear to be a cash-grab on her part.

I didn’t try to interview Jimenez at all, out of respect for her privacy. She’s 80, and has been bombarded daily with requests from media literally from around the world, al of them wanting to know the same thing: how she could have possibly screwed up so badly. I put myself in her shoes and made the call not to make that call.