Elias Martinez Painting

García martínez was born in requena where he started his artistic career he studied at the real academia de bellas artes de san carlos de valencia and in barcelona he moved to zaragoza where he married juliana condoy tello in 1894 he started to work as an assistant professor in the escuela provincial de bellas artes de zaragoza where he taught the course of ornamental drawing.

Elias martinez painting. The painting will go on show to the public at ostalé s gallery on 1 december. Initially painted around 1930 by the spanish painter elias garcia martinez the altered fresco was widely slammed for making jesus look like a monkey. While press accounts agree that the original painting was artistically unremarkable its fame derives from a good faith attempt to. View of the deteriorated version of ecce homo mural by 19th century painter elias garcia martinez right next to a copy of the original left at the borja church in zaragoza spain.

Another failed attempt at restoring a 16 th century statue of st george and the dragon in northern spain left the saint looking like a playmobil figure or the cartoon character tintin. The ecce homo behold the man in the sanctuary of mercy church in borja spain is a fresco painted circa 1930 by the spanish painter elías garcía martínez depicting jesus crowned with thorns both the subject and style are typical of traditional catholic art. Culture art news elderly woman destroys 19th century spanish fresco by elias garcia martinez in botched restoration.