Not a reference to anything. The article says the guy was identified as "Kumar", and this was just another way of saying that he evidently has issues.
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Not a reference to anything. The article says the guy was identified as "Kumar", and this was just another way of saying that he evidently has issues.
Midnight
The Ever-Present "It"
That much is true. How drunk do you suppose he must have been?
Quite.
Magnus
currently discounted
"Man bites dog" classic with a slither, gotta love how life reflects art.
And yes, poor snake.
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
If you hadn't specified that it was in India then I could have sworn it would have been the Florida man.
Sienna is officially angry.
Saapanael
Ancient Mariner
Sienna (from Italian: terra di Siena, meaning "Siena earth") is an earth pigment containing iron oxide and manganese oxide.
The Toyota Sienna is a minivan manufactured by Toyota at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana facility in Princeton, Indiana, United States, for the North American market.
Which Sienna are we talking about here?
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
She's yellowy brown in colour. So yeah, the exact same colour as the Toyota.
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
Crappy Spanish restoration strikes again!
The professional body for restoring artwork is really unhappy about this because there's no legal protection for their trade. They've said that heritage pieces like this should only be worked on by proper restoration experts. Who the hell would pay some amateur to do this anyway? It would be like if all the recordings of 'Hallowed be thy Name' went missing and Rod Smallwood got The Raven Age to redo it.
Always fucking Spain.
Copy of Spanish Baroque painting botched by amateur restoration
Despite two attempts to fix it, the copy of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo painting has been left unrecognisable.
www.bbc.co.uk
The professional body for restoring artwork is really unhappy about this because there's no legal protection for their trade. They've said that heritage pieces like this should only be worked on by proper restoration experts. Who the hell would pay some amateur to do this anyway? It would be like if all the recordings of 'Hallowed be thy Name' went missing and Rod Smallwood got The Raven Age to redo it.
Always fucking Spain.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Crappy Spanish restoration strikes again!
Copy of Spanish Baroque painting botched by amateur restoration
Despite two attempts to fix it, the copy of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo painting has been left unrecognisable.www.bbc.co.uk
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The professional body for restoring artwork is really unhappy about this because there's no legal protection for their trade. They've said that heritage pieces like this should only be worked on by proper restoration experts. Who the hell would pay some amateur to do this anyway? It would be like if all the recordings of 'Hallowed be thy Name' went missing and Rod Smallwood got The Raven Age to redo it.
Always fucking Spain.
Blimey, that is a REALLY botched job!
I wonder what made the collector take his picture to that place in the first instance. A cheap quote???
Cat Milk Supreme
Ancient Mariner
Solid effortCopy of Spanish Baroque painting botched by amateur restoration
Despite two attempts to fix it, the copy of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo painting has been left unrecognisable.www.bbc.co.uk
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You've got to wonder how many times paintings have been 'restored' and changed in the past. Not badly, maybe, but definitely different to the original.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
The BBC (highly recommended) programme Lost Masterpieces shows that dodgy restorations are quite common, albeit not as bad as some of those recent examples.
I was thinking more of an early medieval, for example, mural, being repainted in a completely different style in the 15th or 16th Century, and updated again in the 17th or 18th. Which version is the real piece of history?
Let's not get into the whitewashing of church interiors in the Reformation.
Let's not get into the whitewashing of church interiors in the Reformation.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
So true. The portals of Romanesque churches were painted in bright colours, colours that are now lost. Which version is the real piece of history?
The_7th_one
Ancient Mariner
If the furniture restorer was living in the Medieval Times would be condemned to die after be marked as the devil 
Onhell
Infinite Dreamer
The one still standing, I'd say. No point of wondering about what was. I sometimes go into a panic over the library of Alexandria and the amount codices lost during the Spanish conquest of Latin America. Never mind the amount of monuments lost in the middle east due to wars or just Muslims not giving two shits about ancient statues and temples.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
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