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Sara Drew is the director of conservation at Center Art Studio in New York City. She shows us how the team restores a 16th-century wooden sculpture of St. George by repairing the damage that occurred in transit from Barcelona.
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@BlenderStudy Год назад

Amazing work. The statue's face looks like it was recently made. Thank you for the update, Insider..!!

@miguelangelc.a.5268 Год назад

They did a great job into the armour, restoration in detail, cleaness, but....the change the face expresion from the original. I'm from Barcelona. I live on Barcelona and I know several antique shops on Barcelona. This sepulturero must be bougth from one of the finest antique Shops in the Carrer de la Palla , very near Plaça del Pi where the Basílica of Santa Maria del Pi is. Between the basílica and Caelum , the most antique coffe~shop of Barcelona. They served the sweets from all monasteries of Spain and the second floor it is carved over roman age rocks.

@ChrisWhiteAroundTheGround Год назад

Utterly fascinating, thanks not only for the restoration but also for this video.

@neophoys Год назад

Okay you lost me at using the ancient drill press. Why would you use a less accurate and reliable tool to do restauration? Wouldn't you want to minimize the chances of damaging it further? Genuinely curious!

@fabrizio483 Год назад

Are you an art restoration specialist?

@dertobbe1176 Год назад

@@fabrizio483 Look how it looks like after it. Not even the angel is fitting. After "restoration" he looks on the ground...

@fabrizio483 Год назад

@@dertobbe1176 She just removed the varnish that wasn't there to begin with. Original artworks sometimes don't align with our perception, much like the old Roman statues that were all painted.

@basilmemories Год назад

1) they aren't drilling into the old wood. they're drilling into the plugs that they put in with fish glue, aka a reversible glue. 2) drill presses are used because they are in fact, quite accurate. it's a drill that only has a vertical degree of motion, so if your hand slips or has a tremble, you don't drill at an odd angle or gouge out wood you want to keep. to illustrate, imagine you're trying to screw a bolt into a wall with a standard impact driver, if you can't hold the tool steady or you're working at an awkward angle, it's going to go wrong, now imagine the driver has a guide that's flush to the wall and ONLY lets you drive the bolt into the wall or remove it, that's the difference between freehand drilling and using a drill press.

@dertobbe1176 Год назад

@@fabrizio483 Well It's not about the dirt. Look at the angle of his view. He looks on the ground now

@user-fl4gq2nc3g Год назад

Incredible to watch the meticulous work done and the beautiful results! You should be very proud.

@Rose-bb4ze Год назад

just my opinion but i liked the "yellowed" look on the sculpture more than the restored version.. the face lost all its depth with the new paint

@PSPguy2 Год назад

I agree. The before face looked more natural.

@rebeccapaul6455 Год назад

I kind of feel the same way. It's what we 21st century people expect...that look of great age. But imagine what 16th century folk saw when it was first presented in a church or what caused a private patron to gasp when the sculpture was delivered. A glorious, new freshly colored work.

@florindalucero3236 Год назад

@@rebeccapaul6455 It's like with ancient greek and roman statues, we expect them to be all white because the Victorians sand blasted them. when you see repros of how they would have looked, gaudy, loud, and full of life, you get a totally different understanding of what they meant and what effect they would have had.

@robjelliott Год назад

Please say the posting date is relevant! All the original artists effort of toning the face has been wiped out and completely ruined

@miguelg1370 Год назад

The angle in which the figure is placed was botched, now it’s looking straight down. All the rest was done great.

@BryanM362 Год назад

Awesome! Restorations like this are a career I could sink my teeth into!

@lynettemayhew1723 7 месяцев назад

Beautiful restore. Job well done👍

@alangknowles Год назад

That was much larger than I first thought.

@SharonRaeRyan Год назад

Amazing restoration!

@anitahoffmann5775 Год назад

They make a mistake -I Write in German: wenn man klassische Malerei praktiziert, dann weiß man , dass hier die Restaurierung fehlgeschlagen ist: denn der Firnis (auch Zwischenfirnis)hat eine gewisse Aufgabe neben den Schutz, nämlich leichte Schattierungen zu betonen, die teils mit der Lasur aufgetragen werden! Wenn dieser Firnis aber entfernt wird, dann wird auch diese durchscheinende Lasur/Schattierung mit entfernt!

@anitahoffmann5775 Год назад

They make a mistake -I Write in German: if you practice classical painting, then you know that the restoration has failed here: because the varnish (also intermediate varnish) has a certain task in addition to protection, namely to emphasize light shades that are partly be applied with the glaze! But if this varnish is removed, then this translucent glaze/shade is also removed!

@maryannecross4220 Год назад

Wow! Absolutely fascinating thank you, he is as he was made 👏👏👏🇬🇧

@subswithoutvids-dw6dv Год назад

It’s a sculpture with a story.

@LinRuiEn Год назад

Cleaning the old varnish off the face and hands was like removing a dead skin... It looks so alive now!

@erueru2014 Год назад

So George didn't mind when the dragon was fed just regular young women from the town?

@I_WANT_MY_SLAW Год назад

Why would he?

@erueru2014 Год назад

@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW yeah they were just peasents, not real humans like the princess ;)

@mikemorrisonmusic Год назад

The vocal fry, though.

@M3ganwillslay Год назад

Remember the *Spanish lady who restored a painting of Jesus ... LoL 😂 I still cannot forget it .and the Conan sketch !

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

ecce mono is the name ^^

@aoterou Год назад

It was a Spanish lady… and since then Spain has become the world capital of ridiculously botched restorations (I lost count at 5)

@M3ganwillslay Год назад

@@aoterou omg yes yes spanish ..sorry

@PhantomFilmAustralia Год назад

That botched restoration you're talking about has brought some serious tourism dollars to the community. It has come known as a "successful failure."

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

@@PhantomFilmAustralia yeah, I skimmed the wikipedia article, and it says that ecce mono increased tourism to the town by like 20 times for several years. the church started taking money to see it, and the painter got royalties from souveniers.

@BigboiiTone Год назад

Dude looks blazed af😂 but if I had to sit for hours , waiting for a sculptor to render my face, I'd need to take the edge off the boredom myself

@fionabryant7923 Год назад

I like the original better too

@khurramkhurshed9427 Год назад

Unique Art 🎨 ✨️

@franzrogar 6 месяцев назад

8:48 A coat ofshellac? Won't that turn yellow over time? Wouldn't have been more proper to add a restoration damar natural resin with UV protection? That way you prevent discoloration and yellowish at the same time protecting the original pigments...

@katfromthekong414 Год назад

The after-version looks like a 12 year old painted it .... the face has lost all its expressiveness. Looked better before if you ask me.

@williamglaser6577 Год назад

What happened to the sword or spear, clearly it is missing.

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

looks like they didn't have an original and improvised a new one. I guess the finish is good enough, but they skimped on the shape, I think it's very unlikely that the original was just a pointy stick. it probably would have had a gilded lance head. but then they would have had to make a guess about the shape of it, preferably based on other old examples. I also think that they just made it too short, that's not even a good pointy stick.

@FEMA_Region_4_Slave 9 месяцев назад

What do you know, even the white wall looks more vibrant and brighter in the “AFTER” shot.

@user-sg4lq4dh2u Год назад

3:40 bruh this is The Front Bottoms album cover

@AI-hx3fx Год назад

So. Soothing.

@fabrizio483 Год назад

Fascinating!

@19Bmiller Год назад

Amazing

@sharit7970 Год назад

wonder what that work costs...

@JohnLobert Год назад

Why do all your sentences sound like questions?

@electrojones Год назад

I can't believe those Barcelonians let him down packing and shipping this thing so poorly. The Barcelonial work ethic has really gone to pot since the assassination of King Barcalounger.

@smashonlamez Год назад

What is with underhanded yet racist comment 😂 idc about Barcelona but dropping knowledge like it’s factual, and not racist it’s funny to me. lol

@electrojones Год назад

Brilliant comment. No notes.

@MTCopyright Год назад

It looked better before 😢

@thealaris Год назад

But it look as it should now

@MrBrownnn696 Год назад

Kinda creeps me out… like at night it moves around…

@guldenaydin9918 Год назад

🌈💐

@karlosp02 Год назад

St. Michael

@redbutterfly88 Год назад

Too much yellow gold for my taste.. botched

@shogun9184 Год назад

Maybe just me...: i think the vintage original looks waaay better

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

they mostly made it more vintage and more original, because the grey was dirt and old non-original varnish. you can see that the pink skin is original because it shows up underneath the gunk. they also brought out way more of the original gold, which is nice. the side by side pictures are a bit badly adjusted to highlight the change. the results shown later in the video do look much better than the pre-restoration state.

@dertobbe1176 Год назад

Absolutly

@mouse5178 Год назад

May be so but the reality is it was way different from original and actually worse given the varnish over dirt etc

@stel1000 Год назад

It did loose the gradation on the lips red and the pose is kinda different given that they didn’t attach it same as before on the dragon . Also I think there might have been some lost details like tiny hair painted on the varnish or something

@slayer7833 Год назад

agreed

@mudlark4099 Год назад

I liked the aged look best.

@katrussell6819 11 месяцев назад

She is smart. But the vocal fry is difficult to listen to.

@kakungcu Год назад

Restoring a 16th century yellowed wooden

@theresadimaggio7241 Год назад

Great job

@deandretan55 Год назад

Is it just me or that statue looks like st Michael

@enricospedicato5543 Год назад

Saint George? Without the horse? Why not Saint Michael Archangel?

@keishas6162 Год назад

Fire wood 🪵

@vladtheinhaler3226 Год назад

This creepy thing is now clean. Let's put it in a child's bedroom.

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

unlikely to happen after somebody just spent thousands of dollars on fixing it.

@vladtheinhaler3226 Год назад

@@Ass_of_Amalek It'll likely wonder off on it's own anyhow. Probably to strangle some college students having a Halloween party.

@Onsvaltti Год назад

I'm sorry, but the narrator voice is kinda annoying 🙈💦 I don't know if it's the accent or the raspy nasal voice, but it was kinda distracting.

@lizhao6979 Год назад

後邊的屏風是中國式。要說起貴種族的完美主義也是沒治了😄

@mwmwmwmwmmdw Год назад

hilarious april fools video!

@nikolaip4947 Год назад

I'm not an art specialist, historian or anything of the sort. But to me it looked way better before, and the face doesn't look good at all now. Also looks for feminine and a different expression

@AD-Dom Год назад

A disappointing treatment at that.

@lilyHussey Год назад

Looks to me you botched a beautiful piece of history.... maybe delete this lol.

@lucysuffolk6599 Год назад

Beautiful shots tainted by vocal fry. Such a pity.

@MatheusHenrique-jk4my Год назад

Old Christian action figure

@Nathaniel_E_Dearing Год назад

How do you know the dirt under the varnish _wasn't_ supposed to be there? Perhaps it was meant to represent dirt from the battlefield, and was applied to the sculpture on purpose?

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

because they do this for a living. fake patina is discernible from real dirt, and hardly ever comes off as easily.