46+ Elias Martinez Painting Ruined UK. Elias garcia martinez's ecce homo *was* a fresco painting, it has been destroyed. Initially painted around 1930 by the spanish painter elias garcia martinez, the altered fresco was widely slammed for making jesus look like a monkey.
Ecce homo (behold the man) by elias garcia martinez has been inside the sanctuary of mercy church near zaragoza for over 100 years.
Teresa garcia, granddaughter of elias garcia martinez, said the woman had painted the tunic before, but the fresco got disfigured when she. Elias martinez | mexicano de nacimiento, lagunero de corazon y chilango por convicción. He studied at the real academia de bellas artes de san carlos de valencia and in barcelona. The damage was discovered after martinez's granddaughter made a donation to the centro de estudios borjanos which holds an archive of local religious artworks, a.