The 'restored' Ecce Hommo painting.

Scorned artist behind 'Ecco Homo' turns celebrity

After an 83-year-old widow and amateur painter tried her hand at restoring a nearly century-old fresco of Jesus crowned with thorns in her local church here, she faced nothing but scorn and ridicule.

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Immortalised: A ruby-red sofa and a pair of paintings help form a 3D image of the actress's face in the Mae West Room at ...

A surreal experience in Catalonia

The busiest point of Spain’s Dali triangle is Figueres, home to the Dali Theatre-Museum, but Dali's house-museum in Portlligat and the Gala Dali Castle in Pubol are refreshingly free of visitors.

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