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Old 08-23-2012, 12:24 PM
 
Location: Greensboro
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Jesus now looks like Mr. Bill. NOOOOOOOOOOO!



Elderly woman destroys 19th-century fresco with DIY restoration

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Old 08-25-2012, 03:37 PM
 
Location: New England
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well it WAS with good intentions
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Old 08-25-2012, 05:46 PM
 
Location: S. Wales.
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It's not great art but good art and it's not like it was Giotto, but I did wince a bit.
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Old 08-25-2012, 05:53 PM
 
Location: Logan Township, Minnesota
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what baffles me is her restoration of the robe was quite good. I find it hard to believe the the defacing was was not intentional. If she did the robe, she would have not done such an amateur job on the face. Just my opinion.
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Old 08-25-2012, 06:18 PM
 
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I noticed too that the robe is near perfect..Oh well it will probably be worth lots of bucks in a hundred years or so.
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Old 08-25-2012, 06:48 PM
 
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I noticed too that the robe is near perfect..Oh well it will probably be worth lots of bucks in a hundred years or so.
Maybe she just can't do faces? I can draw lots of things, but hands always mangle me. I can't draw hands. Maybe she can't paint faces?
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Old 08-26-2012, 02:58 AM
 
Location: S. Wales.
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what baffles me is her restoration of the robe was quite good. I find it hard to believe the the defacing was was not intentional. If she did the robe, she would have not done such an amateur job on the face. Just my opinion.
Damn' I must have been half asleep. You are quite right. All she needed to do was just tidy up what was there - to make such an Edvard Munch of it I can only think that she first tried to clean the face up by scrubbing and it all came off so she had no guide - or it was deliberate defacement as you say. Btw. Congrats on being made Moderator.
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Old 08-29-2012, 01:44 PM
 
Location: Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne
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I don't think the robe was done especially well, and that was the easy part.

I hate seeing art, secular or religious, being ruined and feel for the "restorationist". I sincerely doubt it was her intention to ruin the painting.
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Old 08-29-2012, 08:30 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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Is it the shameful desecration of historic art by amateur preservationists ...

...OR... as ancient astronaut theorists contend, proof of extraterrestrial visitation in the Earths past?


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Old 08-30-2012, 02:58 AM
 
Location: S. Wales.
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Since we can't explain the occurrence 100%, that is as good an explanation...and damn' - that face does does look a bit alien -like, well it isn't human. Could they be trying tell us something? They SAW the old dear doing it? well....perhaps the aliens messed with her mind so she'd pass on this mysterious hint that aliens are real.... yeah, yeah.. Now all we need to do is find someone in a fifty mile radius who claimed to have seen a UFO and we have all the evidence anyone but a blinkered skeptic must accept.

I'd have made a great Flying saucer nut, too.
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