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Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man encodes blueprint of human evolution, says London dental surgeon. (Photo courtesy of Rory Mac Sweeney) Drawing on his interdisciplinary work in dental anatomy, geometry and human evolution, London-based dental surgeon Dr. Rory Mac Sweeney has proposed a new interpretation of the geometry behind Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. Historians and mathematicians have long…

500-year-old temple, submerged in river Mahanadi, resurfaces in Odisha’s Nayagarh

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NEW DELHI: A 500-year-old temple, which was submerged in river Mahanadi long ago, has been found in Odisha’s Nayagarh district. The ancient temple is believed to be dedicated to Lord Vishnu.

A team of archaeologists of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) claimed that they have discovered an ancient submerged temple in the Mahanadi upstream from Cuttack.

The…

Odisha: 500-year-old submerged temple resurfaces in Mahanadi

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An ancient temple, submerged for a long time in river Mahanadi, has resurfaced in Odisha’s Nayagarh district.

The ancient temple is believed to be around 500 years old.

The archaeological survey team of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) recently claimed that they discovered an ancient submerged temple in the Mahanadi upstream from Cuttack.

The temple was…

Stunningly well preserved 500-year-old Columbus-era shipwreck revealed: 'It’s almost like it sank yesterday'

Maritime archaeologists have used underwater drone technology to reveal the remains of an incredibly well-preserved 500-year-old shipwreck in the Baltic. [ad_2] Source link

Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old musical instrument (photo + video)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) had to wait 500 years before his dream of making the viola organista, which made its first model in 2013.

The Viola Organista or the Viola Viola (in comparison to the organ) is a combination of Harpsicord, Organ and Viola da Gamba machines, all of which belong to the era of Leonardo da Vinci. The machine looks like a harpsichord and…

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Outrage in Spain over botched restoration of 500-year-old St. George statue

  Pamplona, Spain, Jun 28, 2018 / 10:32 am (CNA).- Outrage has been sparked in a town in northern Spain over the botched renovation of a 16th-century wooden sculpture of St. George, which was repainted by a local arts and crafts teacher.

The Church of St. Michael – located just southwest of Pamplona in the town of Estella – allegedly hired a local workshop to restore the 500-year-old polychrome statue which was showing signs of age.

  A botched statue restoration in Spain: Is that St. George or Tintin? https://t.co/aAZlha24ft pic.twitter.com/LwZSQxzQeV

— National Post (@nationalpost) June 27, 2018

  The workshop, called Karmacolor, specializes in arts and crafts for children and basic furniture repairs – not professional restoration, according to the town’s mayor Koldo Leoz.

However, the parish priest said the church only intended for the arts and crafts teacher to clean the sculpture and did not ask for a full renovation, according to the BBC. Since the attempted restoration, which started about a month ago, the once-faded St. George sculpture now bears a pink face with brightly colored red and gray armor.

“The parish decided on its own to take action to restore the statue and gave the job to a local handicrafts teacher. The council wasn’t told and neither was the regional government of Navarre,” said Koldo Leoz, mayor of Estella, according to the Guardian.

“It’s not been the kind of restoration that it should have been for this 16th-century statue. They’ve used plaster and the wrong kind of paint and it’s possible that the original layers of paint have been lost,” Leoz continued, adding, “this is an expert job it should have been done by experts.”

Spain’s art conservation association (ACRE) also decried the failed restoration attempt, saying “we cannot tolerate more attacks on our cultural heritage.”

“It shows a frightening lack of training of the kind required for this sort of job,” ACRE said in a statement.

Carmen Usua, the owner of a restoration company in the Navarra region, called the restoration an “atrocity.”

“As a professional, I feel disconcerted and very offended. It takes years to acquire the skills necessary to carry out these kind of restorations, so imagine the frustration when something like this happens,” Usua said, according to the New York Times.

This is not the first time a Spanish Catholic church has attracted headlines with a botched attempt at artwork renovation. In 2012, an 81-year-old woman decided to “fix” a peeling 19th-century “Ecce Homo” fresco, depicting the face of Jesus Christ at Sanctuary of Mercy Church in Zaragoza, Spain.

The result smeared the features of the image to such shapelessness that it was not recognizably human and was described as a werewolf or a monkey.