Estella has a new claim to fame

VNwalking

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• Jun 26, 2018

• #1

And it's not what a lot of people would wish.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/world/europe/spain-estella-church-statue.html

 

domigee

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• Jun 26, 2018

• #2

¡Que barbaridad!

 

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• Jun 26, 2018

• #3

VNwalking said:

And it's not what a lot of people would wish.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/world/europe/spain-estella-church-statue.html

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You got there first @VNwalking I was struggling with inserting the hyperlink in my post - will try and delete mine.

 

Jeff Crawley

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• Jun 27, 2018

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But who is to say it didn't look something like that originally?

Clean 500 years of muck off of an oil painting and this is what you get:

 

nycwalking

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• Jun 27, 2018

• #5

Um.

 

peregrina2000

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• Jun 27, 2018

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Looks like they want to follow Borja’s example. I didn’t get to see it when I walked through because it was too early in the morning, unfortunately.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/borja-makes-lemonade-out-of-lemons.39072/

 

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• Jun 27, 2018

• #7

San Jorge transformed into the Gerber baby food infant!

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/spanish-church-restorer-st-george-intl-trnd/index.html

 

GraemeHall

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• Jun 27, 2018

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How about this one? Also in Estella ..... https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/wor..._medium=email&utm_campaign=PM Update 20180627

 

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• Jun 27, 2018

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A Spanish news website has been commenting on the scale of the international interest in this story which has been picked up and republished worldwide.

https://www.abc.es/cultura/abci-ecce-homo-navarro-traspasa-fronteras-201806271245_noticia.html

 

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• Jun 27, 2018

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There is a right way and a wrong way to art restoration. Clearly someone goofed in this instance.

I hope they can bring in a proper restorer to remove the badly applied layers of 'makeup.'

 

Bad Pilgrim

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• Jun 27, 2018

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VNwalking said:

And it's not what a lot of people would wish.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/world/europe/spain-estella-church-statue.html

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Yes I read about that in the newspaper today on the camino... I didn't think it was that bad? The Borja incident looked worse. They haven't changed the expression of the face, at least...?

 

VNwalking

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• Jun 27, 2018

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Bradypus said:

A Spanish news website has been commenting on the scale of the international interest in this story which has been picked up and republished worldwide.

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Perhaps Estella is hoping there will be busloads of tourists to see the restoration?

 

MichelleElynHogan

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• Jul 1, 2018

• #13

I may be wrong but the incident seem as though it has stemmed from possibly a missing step, one where the restorer would present the, "Procedures and Anticipated Results," for approval before the work was initiated.

In Project Management, this is an essential turning point and must be completely accepted by the Customer so when the project is complete, the results are exactly what is expected.

Here is hoping they can reverse the, "restoration," and the desired result can still be achieved.

 

Paul S.

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• Jul 4, 2018

• #14

Kathar1na said:

The statue is attributed to a known master (name is Tarín or Terín).

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From Terín to Tintin apparently is not a very large step...

 

Jeff Crawley

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• Jun 21, 2019

• #15

The statue has now been re-restored and is due to go back to Estella shortly

Statue of St George

Hadn't realised it was so large.