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To: NYer
I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for the hate crime charges.

Fortunately, largely as the result of Laszlo Toth's 1972 vandalism of Michelangelo's Pietà, restorers have come up with some pretty innovative means of repairing broken marble by employing mixtures of epoxy resins and marble dust which can fairly convincingly replicate the surface translucense of the original marble. It's a painstaking and expensive process, but fortunately it can be done if they can recover the missing pieces.

3 posted on 12/01/2012 1:47:34 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

This aren’t valuable or rare statues calling for expensive restorations but we would like to have them complete, just the same.


13 posted on 12/01/2012 5:43:58 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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