Salon.com > Beast Jesus http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 20:11:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Octogenarian restorer: I want royalties! http://www.salon.com/2012/09/23/octogenarian_restorer_i_want_royalties/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/23/octogenarian_restorer_i_want_royalties/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13018116 Hyperallergic In what can only be described as the most unbelievable turn of events around the Beast Jesus debacle, Techdirt says the woman at the center of the global sensation is claiming copyright and wants a cut of the tourist money bonanza that has hit the small Spanish church.

Yes, octogenarian Cecilia Gimenez, who destroyed transformed García Martínez’s 19th-century fresco of Jesus into the now infamous Beast Jesus, isn’t pleased that she’s been left out of the spoils of her work. Spanish newspaper El Correo explains that since last Saturday the church has started charging visitors to the site and Gimenez wants some of the €2,000 they’ve raised in four days.

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