While I am not excusing the cost and I am a total art philistine
It's not like they need to slap a layer of Dulux on it. It's a complex job that will need to be done carefully and painstakingly by experts.

Maybe Cecilia Gimenez is free?
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:05, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

I'm being facetious
It still doesn't really cost that to restore a fucking painting. I could reproduce that picture perfectly on a grain of sand using a femtosecond laser and an atomic force microscope and it'd still cost about a tenth of that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:15, Reply)

Could you? Could you really?
(NB I am being serious, could you really do that? If yes you have SKILLZ)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:17, Reply)

Probably.
Although, these days I'd probably have to get one of my postdocs to do it, I'm well out of practice at anything other than politics and arguing with funding bodies.

My group usually uses femtosecond lasers for etching internal microchannels in glass blocks and my AFM is set up for cell imaging rather than this kind of guff. But it's perfectly doable.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:20, Reply)

What happens if you sneeze?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:22, Reply)

I don't mean generally, I mean, in direct relation to if you're doing one of those paintings.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:22, Reply)

With an AFM?
All your data is fucked, usually. Mine's set up in an acoustic isolation housing on an air table and even then closing a door 30 feet away buggers it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:23, Reply)

Has anyone sneezed and the bad-data produced good results that wasn't expected?
Like that guy who invented gravity when the apple fell on his head.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:27, Reply)

It writes "CUNT" on the inside of your eyelids

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:24, Reply)