Beware of destroying that patina......

[Feltwell]

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

 

[FamilyWiggs]

I'm sure I've seen that somewhere before....

Oh yes. http://periodproperty.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13238#p179933

:wink:

 

[Alex]

What can I say ? :shock:

 

[robgil]

Jesus Wept!

 

[LadyArowana]

Jesus Wept!

:lol: which is obviously what caused the problem in the first place, so far from being upset about it they should be considering it a miracle and rejoicing. I wonder if they have ended up with loads of visitors that wouldn't have bothered before? It could be so much more of an attraction now, which will mean there will have to be a huge debate over whether it should be "re-re- stored". The Lord works in mysterious ways as they say. Of course if it was a Buddhist thing it really wouldn't matter at all, a worthy attempt at merit making, and an eloquent expression of the impermanence of existence.

 

[angrybird]

someone should have gone to specsavers :?

 

[Feltwell]

I'm sure I've seen that somewhere before....

I blame it on coming back from jollidays and not reading all threads.

 

[tobydog]

Okay, hands up all those that laughed.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

I quite like him as a hairy monkey.

It has a pleasing Darwinian irony.

 

[Feltwell]

BBC Europe correspondent Christian Fraser says 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, he says.

I've been called worse.

 

[LadyArowana]

I just knew this was going to happen :lol:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...overnight-tourist-sensation-article-1.1145306

 

[plasticpigeon]

"Tens of thousands of people have signed an online petition that lauds Gimenez's restoration as an "endearing and loving act, a clever reflection of the political and social situation of our time," comparing the retouched fresco to works by Goya, Modigliani and Edvard Munch."