Restoration. You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

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Restoration. You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

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dr_richard_ew · 4 years ago · FIRST

Genuine question here: Are there still people in the world who do marble carving? Could we potentially take inspiration from a statue from like ancient greek times like the broken Nike statue and recreate it to see how it could've potentially looked back in the day? I mean, I know we'll never be as good as they were back then in terms of stonecarving, but maybe we could do some interesting things

purplepumpkin · 4 years ago

Yes
Some people specialize in this for restoration purposes
I know a guy who's a specialist in carving gothic ornaments in granite, and there are a lot of other people like him :) (just not enough)

carbontech · 4 years ago

"Some people specialize in this for restoration purposes". You should forward that list to Spain, lol.

purplepumpkin · 4 years ago

Neveeeeeer we like our fun and sense of superiority :D
just kidding of course. I don't know for the statue, but in the case of the painting it wouldn't have done any change, since the elderly woman who did the bad paint job wanted to do something nice for her community by touching it up in secret (and got super ashamed when it got way out of hand), so a professional was never sought out in the first place.

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Restoration. You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

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