{"id":312,"date":"2015-01-23T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/?p=312"},"modified":"2015-01-23T12:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T18:00:42","slug":"damaged-monet-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vickiscloud.com\/9\/damaged-monet-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Damaged Monet Restored"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monet after being punched<\/p><\/div>\n

Almost three years ago, an unhinged Irish gentleman named Andrew Shannon punched a 141-year-old Monet painting hanging in Ireland’s National Gallery. Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat<\/em> was ruined\u2014or so it seemed.<\/p>\n

The painting had three jagged rips down its center, twisted outward from where Shannon’s fist hit the canvas. Shannon, for his part, is now serving a five-year sentence for his crime, which Metro UK explained<\/a> as “an attempt to ‘get back at the state.'” But the painstaking restoration has taken almost as long as his prison sentence.<\/p>\n

While it seems beyond repair in the image above, conservators at the National Gallery<\/a> posted a detailed account of what sounds a lot like a harrowing surgery on its website.<\/p>\n

Keep reading @ Gizmodo<\/a><\/p>\n

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