Spanish fresco restoration botched by amateur

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Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:41 am

Looking at that side-by-side, I can help thinking of this...

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Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:42 am

Win. I had to double check while reading the article to make sure this wasn't The Onion.
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:45 am

"the delicate brush strokes of Elias Garcia Martinez have been buried under a haphazard splattering of paint.

The once-dignified portrait now resembles a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic"
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:49 am

LOL
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:29 am

:rolling:

i cant even tell you how much i love this
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:04 am

Pic of how the restoration should have looked. Ironic, as the grandaughter of the original painter had only just donated money to have it professionally restored.

The old dear must have crept in during the night to do it, otherwise surely someone would have stopped her. God bless her enthusiasm. I love the way she managed to paint the bottom of the scroll the wrong way round. Escher would be proud of that.
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:18 am

Apparently what the 3 pics above actually show are how the painting looked in 2010, then how it looked after the old woman started scraping the old paint off :shock: as part of her restoration, then how her finished 'piece' looked.

Better version of the story here...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 73267.html
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:21 am

once again...

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Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:34 am

Cool, Chris Morkaut is now biting this Martinez guy.
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:40 am

spankman wrote:Cool, Chris Morkaut is now biting this Martinez guy.
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:40 am

I read that earlier, thought it was the Onion, read it again later...and laughed even more.

What I want to know is, how did no one notice what was happening to the painting?!
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:05 am

Borja is a pretty backwater town, this doesn't surprise me.
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:11 am

Jesus!
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