16 September 2002

Over on Boston.com I just ran across a picture of workers giving David (the Michaelangelo statue) its first cleaning since 1873.

I can't help but think of all the Antiques Roadshow appraisers who tell folks that their heirloom is now worth only half as much because they cleaned it. Someone tell the Vatican, quick!

No comments:

Lentorama 2026: Hic es: aedificia Vaticani   Day 39: Cappella Sistina The Sistine Chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who ordered its...