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“Christ Mocked”, by the 13th-century artist who taught Giotto, is estimated to be worth between four and six million euros ($4.3 million $6.6 million), according to the Old Masters specialists Turquin.
They said the work was owned by an old lady in the northern French town of Compiegne, who had it hanging between her kitchen and her sitting room.
It was directly above a hotplate for cooking food. More
Glad she kept it warm……
“The first stage in the corruption of morals is the banishment of truth …”
Michel de Montaigne
I suspect her grandkids that she hasn’t seen in 20 years will sure want to hang out with grandma now.
‘Christ Mocked’ over the hot-plate turned into ‘Christ Roasted’
ok … I’m going to Hell ………… warm up my spot F.D.R.
Hey, at least she didn’t try to “restore” it like that other old lady and the “Ecce Homo” painting.
Does she also mix her scotch in a beaker on a ferromagnetic stir plate? Who cooks food on a hotplate?
I love stories like this…
Like finding a copy of a Federalist Letter or something, behind the ole’ crap shit painting, spit, landscape copy.
I can smell the crepes…
DAMMMMMMMN! Now she’ll be able to afford to get rid of that hotplate and buy a MICROWAVE!
How much to remove the grease splatter?
https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-09-24/long-lost-rare-13th-century-painting-discovered-french-womans-kitchen .
Geez, kind of similar to the missing 17th century painting in the movie The Goldfinch. Wherein it became collateral for a drug deal, that revealed it had not been destroyed in an explosion at an art museum decades earlier.
To me this truly defines art, not the bajillion bucks people salivate over, just some little old lady with real art over a hot plate…Christ is like that, to heck with fancy museums, i’m gonna hand out with this little old lady..,
Which NAZI did she do to get her hands on that painting? Or does granny just have sticky fingers.
A common peasant doesn’t just have a rare painting hanging in their kitchen. What is the rest of the story?