Fresco Restoration

[MontyVeda]

this is by far my favourite news story of the week... when restoration goes wrong!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19349921

 

[Aperitif]

Thread restoration more like!
This one's a bit yello though.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I haven't seen this story since yello posted it the other day

Edit: beaten to it by an old duffer, bah!

 

[Aperitif]

I haven't seen this story since yello posted it the other day

Edit: beaten to it by an old duffer, bah!

Stop taking the Michaelangelo, you.

 

[vernon]

He must have been Haydn with his iPod and missed the restorer face the music first time round.

 

[Sandra6]

Think the woman must've been a fan of Mr Bean.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Stop taking the Michaelangelo, you.

Only if you quit taking the Pissarro.

 

[asterix]

I still like the new version. It's got a modernist style. Very post-pre-Raphaelite.

 

[Archie_tect]

I've seen her work before- she's the artist in residence at the Tate Modern in St Ives. Unashamed self-publicist.

 

[Aperitif]

Only if you quit taking the Pissarro.

"Hey, I Braque yo leg! You is one of life's little Schwitters.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

You've had hours and that's your best shot?

 

[Archie_tect]

Be fair, she only had yellow, brown and a bit of green in a dried up tube.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

It does look like a lovely warm hat though.

 

[Archie_tect]

I didn't know Jesus had had his right hand chopped off... was he a tea-leaf?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I didn't know Jesus had had his right hand chopped off... was he a tea-leaf?

Well he could be wearing a mink stole!