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He was like "I bet you werent expecting * pulls painting out * THIS SMALL"

@@countesscrows Imagine the impact then that it might've had when the original owner produced it!

Me too, it was amazing. I was proud right by him xD

I'm 100% sure it was never in his pocket, it was a magic trick he played on us

I honestly thought he was going to come up with an awesome segue into a sponsor with that cheeky grin

Omg I love you for pointing this out, I also love dress history and wasn't even paying attention to the attire!!

You don't need all those button to know he was rich. The painting alone does that. Poor people would never be painted.

Thanks for pointing this out! This also reinforces the need for hot and cold running servants because having to do up those buttons would be a relatively time consuming activity. Hence the need for a servant to do so. Just observin’.

The clothes in this picture have a lot more meaning than just some buttons: Judging by the hat and the robes, the sitter is a high ranking catholic priest, probably a cardinal. So yeah, he's rich!

@@johnny_eth yeah, totally. But the number of buttons is just one more way the rich flaunted their status.

Your experience on the profile pic fits your comment well xD

and the asexual flag makes it even funnier

@@ms10089 what's funny about that?

@@ДанилаЛимонов-ж3е She has an asexual flag in the background of her picture

@@telegnazatlqm3972 still don't get the humour

I guess even way back then they liked to show people pictures of their families. Imagine working the grain mill and the other peasant you're working with turns to you and says, "Wouldst thou like to view paintings of mine children?"

Wallets were invented in the 1600s. Cameras were invented in the 1800s. So no they didn't carry around photos.

@@mircat28 No, they carried around paintings like these.

Are we sure this wasn't early Fleer trading cards? Did you check the back for his stats?

That’s basically exactly what these were!

Next video: Julian restores a painting done on a grain of rice 😳

Lol. Won't be surprised.

Look at the little pie cutter for the fill in lol I thought awww whittle pie cutter hahaha

What is this? A hot table for ANTS!?!? 🤣

He should totally do a collab with Tiny Kitchen! She needs new art in her backgrounds anyway.

8:05 for those that didn't write it down on first viewing.

Da sieht man mal, wie weit Dinge wandern. Habe in Amerika schon Medaillen aus Altötting gesehen.

@@reniasva Ich komme aus Kastl XD Nice to meet some Germans from the same area here

@@fabra1122 10Km entfernt? Lol!

Grüße aus dem Norden in den Süden

That's so awesome! I wish you tons of cool and interesting challenges in your new career.

So cool!

Good luck in your new career 🥰🖼️

Congrats on getting an apprenticeship in the field of your dreams!

Msy you have many many happy years ahead of you.

Exactly. He's an amazing writer. I even paused the video when the Surfshark part began to write a comment because the way he shifted into "commercial mode" was impeccable. bravo, Julian.

@@micaelaferreira8337 He is the master of segue! I've never seen anyone else do it more seamlessly.

It’s the “Vows” video isn’t it?

That was the Vows video :)

One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it or something idk

oh I didn't realise he meant fahrenheit till you mentioned it now?!!

@@maddieb2002 I literally had to pause and process what he said 😂

150 °C would rather be used for baking cakes. 🤣

God bless the imperial system of measurement just the US and Liberia.

I had to go google the conversion into Celsius so I could understand how "hot" it was/wasn't lol xD

Most restorationists have a large list of insurance adjusting and salvage companies as clients. They are looking for $, no smiles involved.

@@7531monkey one day someone will still smile at his work.

what kind of miniatures?

Can you link us to your website if you have one?

We're curious!

I wondered if anyone would catch that.

"Make it so, number one."

I am actually considering painting some smol paintings and seeling them on my etsy 👀 I really love small formats

I encourage this.

There are I came across an artist that painted miniatures on sterling silver lockets

A copper soap dish ? I think that would look quite a mess quite rapidly :x

Agree 100%. Julian's videos are like comfort food, chicken soup for the soul, ASMR-like and soothing, just watching a master craftsman bring damaged art back to life.

I would recommend DW (Deutsche Welle) and NHK world for some more global news, in English and much more documentaries of artisanal work in case either helps too

My favorite painting ever was one an aunt did when I was a kid, way back in the 70s. She took off her bathroom door, set it on an easel next to the open bathroom door, and painted her bathroom at noon. Then she hung the door back up, is was so good people would walk into it if they weren't paying close attention and noticed it wasn't actually 3D. Sadly it burned in a house fire, it was a nice bathroom. I would have loved to use it for a closet door or something to be funny. I tried recreating it, but I am not the artist she was, sadly.

It could be a cloak- the buttons stopping where they do would leave plenty of give in the fabric for the wearer to move their arms when eating, drinking, riding, etc. while keeping the cloak as a whole in place on the shoulders. People getting their portrait done (like you would when picture day came along in school) were dressing their best, so I doubt they'd wear anything that was missing buttons. Especially not someone as influential and powerful as a Bishop. Even if they had, I imagine a portrait artist would just correct the wardrobe malfunction by painting on the missing button. So they don't risk pissing off their patron- the person providing them with housing, food, clothing, and all their art materials.

@@MissingmyBabbu the button is missing between two other buttons

It is not missing a button, it never had a button there. The buttons on many rennaisance and early modern clothes were large in number and small in size, and placed in various sets according to the whims of the owner, there is no rule to say buttons must be evenly spaced. The buttons on this cassock are simply in sets of four, you can make out the end of the 2nd set if you look at the bottom of the painting.

😂😂 This is a perfect comment 👌

Bonus points if you apply a thick layer polyurethane that’s just about removable but only after 500 hours of careful scraping.

She said she wanted to mess with them, not make them regret ever being born ;) @@EternalShadow1667

I've heard of things similar to this given out from Priests to altar boys when they come of age, and move on to attend their own church. In times of temptation or stress, or simple loneliness they could gaze at it, holding it in their hands, like "What would you do? Help me think here!" sort of energy. Being a bishop, and likely quite wealthy, it makes it more likely I would think.

I actually have come to think of him as a mortician, like an uncle of mine. Giving dignity and beauty back to people and places long gone, so those of us who never met them in life can remember them. He gives people long forgotten a little glimpse of immortality, in a way. As the saying goes- A good man will do good for his friends and neighbors. A great man will do good for strangers.

Have you a link to this, if it is available online? Thanks if you can help!

That's perfect. Absolutely perfect description.

ye I looked at the big canvas and was like "huh is this a place where he tests his paints and colours, cleans his brushes on or something" totally didn't think it was a painting

There's a lot of abstract art I like and there is some I really don't - there are just some painting styles where there seems to be no craft to it. People often say Pollock had no craft, but if you look at the rhythmic nature of his pieces, you can see the skill in them. As for that one, though, when Julian said "you could drive a truck through it and there would be enough else going on you won't notice any slight flaws in the restoration", my thought was really, well, slap some masking tape on the back, throw some housepaint on the front to cover any major losses, and who could tell? (Yes, of course there's more detail to to the actual painting than that, and of course everyone has their own tastes, but ...)

IKR

Just about to get off too, guess I should wait to get home before I start it 🤔 that or watch while I'm driving 😂

@@pribilovian4709 I know you're very likely joking, but please don't watch a video while driving.

@@sgtleobella appreciate man, and yes, I was joking, I cant stand seeing ppl on their phones while driving

@@pribilovian4709 I figured you were, but felt compelled to comment just in case haha

Apparently Julian has spoken to my wife. 😂

I still don't get this saying. I could understand "Big isn't better, it's just bigger", but I don't understand it the way he says it.

I think it was supposed to be bigger but got missed in the edit?

@greg Thorne and @steve Kunze, I think the point is that the fact that the painting is bigger, it makes it more impactfull and, because of that, better. It is not necessarily technically or artistically better, but the size affects the effect it has on the public. I felt that in the Louvre. I went to see the Mona Lisa but it was too crowded and I had a baby so I figured that a quick glance from across the room would be enough. Then, I turned around and I saw the magnificent and huge "The Wedding Feast at Canaa" by Veronese and I was in awe. Bigger was, in fact, way better. It was amazing. I remember looking around and seeing everyone struggling to see Mona Lisa and missing that amazing painting in the same room. I even shared a look with some stranger that smiled to me, thinking exactly the same.

@@gregthorne4292 Bigger isn't better, it's just big, makes more sense to me.

I scrolled way too far to find this

@@skyfiter99 I respect the commitment xD

Looking him up, this had to be painted after 1661: that was the year he was made a Cardinal.

Hola, si la pintura fue hecha en el siglo XVII sobre cobre es de esperarse un proceso de envejecimiento y oxidación de los colores, recuerde que antes del siglo XIX los colores eran totalmente artesanales y de variados orígenes. Saludos!

@@abelalemanara6504 very sorry, I'm not fluent in what I think is Spanish. Still thank you for your reply! :)

Abel says according to Google translate essentially, blame it being very old and paint oxidisation to occur, causing discolouration.

@@dzeintra6230 Si, efectivamente, puede haber decoloraciones o cambios tonales según el origen de los colores usados. En México, en el siglo XIX se pintaba sobre cobre para obras privadas y para exvotos, muy conocidos porque se hacían para dar gracias a la virgen de Guadalupe por los milagros concedidos. Saludos!

@@FlynnIsAlive que lindo, ya tienes una razón para conocer mi idioma y yo el tuyo. Nice day!

I wondered about that too. Hopefully he sees your question and replies.

came to the comments exactly for this! was wondering why no isolation layer 🤖

the first layer of "varnish" he uses before retouching isnt actually the final varnish, moreso a layer that helps him to figure out what the final colors would look like with the varnish, im guessing he didn't use it due to the "canvas" being copper, maybe it is not suited for it?

I was wondering about that, too. I know that when it really starts to get a green patination on it big time there *might be* a potential chance for going through to the other side, but I'm not sure. I know bronzes can have issues like that, but copper? Not so sure.

Yes, change it rather than keep working to understand what he meant. That's learning. 🙄

@@jakesmerth1919 well mr. condescending, why dont you explain what it means to me then.

@@Aiviymatoc Julian actually explained himself in the video.

@@jakesmerth1919 yeah exactly. that didnt make sense to me, thats why i made the post. but you seem to have understood the meaning, so why dont you explain?

@@Aiviymatoc You're lazy and a quitter. Use your own mind. I understand because I tried to. Julian explains himself, listen and think about it. What you're trying to get me to do is the same as what you did. Looking for easy answers over understanding won't get you much. Here's a tip though, Maybe the words he used can each have multiple meanings. Maybe he chose his words carefully because of that. Or be the lazy minded quitter and tell yourself I don't know either. I've got money on one of those, and I usually only bet a sure thing. People today think everything should be easy and instant. Well, reality doesn't work like that. There's gunna be things that are difficult and potentially take years to overcome, or accomplish- or understand. Nobody owes you an explanation, if you feel you need one, find it.