MADRID — St. Anne, the patron saint of the village of Rañadorio in northwestern Spain, has fuchsia lips, black eyeliner and a bright dress. The Virgin Mary has turquoise hair. The figures, part of a set of 15th-century wooden statues in a chapel in the Asturias region, had recently drawn the attention of a local shopkeeper, who decided they looked “horrible” and needed to be repainted. “So I painted them the best I could, with the colors that seemed right, and the neighbors like it.”Local news outlets did, indeed, quote residents defending the restoration. The work on the statues of Rañadorio looks more like “a vengeance than a restoration,” said Genaro Alonso, the regional minister for culture and education in Asturias, according to the newspaper La Voz de Asturias.

Source: New York Times September 08, 2018 10:58 UTC