The 17th-century image of the Virgin of the Macarena, one of Spain’s most famed Catholic effigies, has survived war and, according to legend, a glass of red wine thrown by a Protestant.
But a “botched” restoration, which critics say has disfigured the Virgin by giving her extra-long eyelashes and the look of someone who has “undergone plastic surgery”, has reduced the faithful to incredulity.
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