Two wooden sculptures depicting Jesus and Mary have fallen under the brush for yet another painted amateur. Although as recently as 2002-2003, they were restored to professional standards and means, writes The Guardian, it was considered over the summer again.

The result: Comparable to, among others, the so-called Ecce Homo, later called Apjesus, and the late, well-known, riding Sankt Göran last summer.

"I'm not a professional artist, but I've always liked to paint and the statues really needed color." This is how the woman who completed the repainting to the Spanish newspaper El Comercio described why her restoration of the wood sculptures got rid of.

Lack of caution

Despite good ambitions, the whole thing is now considered a minor gut. Luis Suárez Saro, who was involved in restoring the statues in the early 2000s, tells The Guardian that he sees the event as ignorant: even a lack of caution about art in its original state.

- This is just the tip of an iceberg and many similar cases never come to the surface. Maybe because many works of art are privately owned, Luis Suárez Saro tells the magazine.

According to him, the statues should now undergo thorough investigations to find out how much damage the repainting has done to the works.

"A shame"

The fact that over the years there have been so many failed attempts at restoration of religious works of art in Spain, he has very little indulgence.

"It is a shame that we have had so many similar cases in such a short period of time," he says.