The famed monument to Christopher Columbus that looms over Columbus Circle was vandalized with pink nail polish this past weekend.

Suspect Daniel Kimery, 38, was busted while painting the left hand of a figure of Columbus that is part of a bronze relief at the bottom of the Manhattan landmark’s base around 10 p.m. Saturday, according to police sources and court records.

Kimery was observed by police “using colored nail polish to paint the left hand of Christopher Columbus’s iron portrait at the foot of Columbus statue,” police said in a report. Police found the pink nail polish in his pocket.

Kimery, who is homeless and originally from Hot Springs, Ariz., told police officers that the pink represented “the blood on the Italian explorer’s hands,” police sources said.

The alleged vandal pleaded to criminal mischief in the fourth degree in court.

Kimery has 12 prior city arrests, including for charges of public consumption, being in the park after hours, criminal trespassing, smoking pot and assault.

His first arrest came in July 2013 for allegedly breaking a restroom door inside Trinity Church in lower Manhattan.

In 2015, The Post wrote about Kimery greeting tourists in Times Square with a hand-lettered sign saying: “F–k You!!! Pay Me!!!!!!! I need money 4 Drugz & Hoez & Weaponz Mother F–kerz!”

He waged the abusive campaign just steps from the NYPD’s Times Square substation at 43rd Street and Broadway.

The weekend vandalism was the second incident involving the defacing of a Columbus statue in the area this month.

Another vandal defaced a statue of the controversial Italian explorer in Central Park. That person is still on the loose.

The statue’s hands were brushed with red paint and the pedestal scrawled with graffiti, including the hashtag “#somethingscoming.” The bronze statue, just north of the 65th Street park transverse, also had the words “Hate will not be tolerated” written in white paint on its pedestal.

Law-enforcement sources said there was surveillance video and that they planned to watch the statue more closely.

Statues of Columbus have become part of a national debate about art depicting historical people with controversial pasts. The dispute led to violence in August, when white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of a statue of the Robert E. Lee. A woman died during a protest of their gathering.

In the Big Apple, Mayor de Blasio has organized a commission to review the city’s statue collection, including images of Columbus, who is often blamed for wreaking havoc on the health of indigenous people after making his 1492 Caribbean voyage.