Recently, a 49 year-old man received a five year prison sentence for a 2012 incident in the National Gallery of Ireland where he punched through an oil painting worth £10 million GBP by Claude Monet. What happened though to the painting itself? Following the incident, the National Gallery of Ireland assembled a team to restore the 1874 painting, titled Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat, back to its former glory with the same precision of a CSI operation. What ensued was an arduous 18 mont...
Recently, a 49 year-old man received a five year prison sentence for a 2012 incident in the National Gallery of Ireland where he punched through an oil painting worth £10 million GBP by Claude Monet. What happened though to the painting itself? Following the incident, the National Gallery of Ireland assembled a team to restore the 1874 painting, titled Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat, back to its former glory with the same precision of a CSI operation. What ensued was an arduous 18 mont...
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