Painting Accident!

[Martin Antonenko]

A congregation in the Spanish town of Estella had decided to have a statue of Saint George from the 16th century restored in their church.

Unfortunately, they have awarded the contract to a local art teacher.

Here Saint George before and after the "Restoration ...:

 

[billyturnip]

Oh no, not again! Will they never learn?

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

 

[Martin Antonenko]

They made a movie about that, with Rowan Atkinson as "Mr. Bean" ...:





But crazy plots you think up - the reality is always EVEN crazy ...!


Cheers

 

[Huw63]

What I love about the latest mishap is that the local art teacher was asked to do the work - you'd have thought that that person would know enough to say that specialist restorers need to be called in!

cheers

Huw

 

[Nap]

Going to take a real specialist to sort these out !!

Nap

 

[billyturnip]

I've got a sudden urge to take my paints and brushes up to St. Gregory's here in Bedale and sort this out.

 

[Huw63]

I've got a sudden urge to take my paints and brushes up to St. Gregory's here in Bedale and sort this out.

Look Closely Roger - it's not a flat, it's not greek and it's not battleship grey!

 

[billyturnip]

Look Closely Roger - it's not a flat, it's not greek and it's not battleship grey!

So what are you trying to say Huw, I'd make a mess of it?

Actually I could argue the point on those observations,
a. It looks pretty flat to me.
b. Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος, Geṓrgios; Latin: Georgius; Coptic: Ⲡⲓⲇⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲅⲉⲟⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ or ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ; between AD 256–285 to 23 April 303), according to legend, was a Roman soldier of Greek origin and a member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian, who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith.

c. It looks like Pussers undercoat grey has been used to paint the armour.

I'll have a word with the vicar and see what he thinks, I could do with getting in the good books with the church.... just incase.

On a more serious note, I think it's quite unusual as it depicts St George as a left hander.

 

[arj]

Here's the difference between one who CAN'T and one who CAN.

Painting needing restoration

Restored by a Hack

Hack's work removed prior to Expert restoration

Fully restored by an Expert

Imagine how much easier it would have been for the Expert to do a proper job on the original damage.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[Huw63]

So what are you trying to say Huw, I'd make a mess of it?

Actually I could argue the point on those observations,
a. It looks pretty flat to me.
b. Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος, Geṓrgios; Latin: Georgius; Coptic: Ⲡⲓⲇⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲅⲉⲟⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ or ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ; between AD 256–285 to 23 April 303), according to legend, was a Roman soldier of Greek origin and a member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperorDiocletian, who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith.

c. It looks like Pussers undercoat grey has been used to paint the armour.

I'll have a word with the vicar and see what he thinks, I could do with getting in the good books with the church.... just incase.

On a more serious note, I think it's quite unusual as it depicts St George as a left hander.

Touché. Got to admire that answer Roger. It is not a flat figure however...

As left handed people were generally considered to be in league with the devil it is interesting. Maybe the patron Saint of England batted for the other side?

 

[Huw63]

Here's the difference between one who CAN'T and one who CAN.

...

Imagine how much easier it would have been for the Expert to do a proper job on the original damage.

Cheers,
Andrew

A marvellous example Andrew

 

[billyturnip]

Touché. Got to admire that answer Roger. It is not a flat figure however...

As left handed people were generally considered to be in league with the devil it is interesting. Maybe the patron Saint of England batted for the other side?

Lol, even more reason for me to get in the good books with the church... I'm left handed!

I'll ignore the comment about St. George's cricketing prowess for the time being.

 

[Huw63]

Lol, even more reason for me to get in the good books with the church... I'm left handed!

I'll ignore the comment about St. George's cricketing prowess for the time being.

Ignore at your peril - only a proud pagan celt would dare say such a thing...

 

[billyturnip]

Ignore at your peril - only a proud pagan celt would dare say such a thing...

I'll ask the vicar for some advice on that while we're discussing me restoring the frescos in his church, assuming it is a "he", sometimes it's a woman or even a middle order batsperson.
Or both, or all three, you just can't tell these days.

 

[Huw63]

There weren't any, it's a thing invented by the internet. The same reason some people think they're able to restore works of art when theyre clearly not, (trying desperately to get the thread back on topic).

I think it worked - nice one Roger

 

[Nap]

Well I think you would do a cracking job Roger ....do I win the grovelling comp ?

That armour looks like it needs you skill with a brush ...

Nap

 

[theBaron]

Is there an equivalent saying in Spanish to, "You get what you pay for"?

Prost!
Brad