Thursday, June 28, 2018

#CatThursday - #Cats in #Art (30) Botched restorations and medieval art


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This month for Cats in Art, I was inspired by an article on Patheos. This article was talking about a recent botched restoration of a famous and irreplaceable work of art in a church. It also mentioned a previous restoration of a church work of art which was horribly botched. 

The latter case of restoration gone wrong was the "Ecce Homo in the Sanctuary of Mercy church in Borja, Spain. That’s the fresco featuring Jesus in a crown of thorns, painted in the 1930s, that a well-meaning artist named Cecilia Giménez offered to restore in 2012."

This was the end result (before and after). Egads!



So, the newest debacle "a 500-year-old painted effigy of St. George battling a dragon, which sits in the Church of St. Michael in the Spanish town of Estella, has been renovated by someone who had no business doing it."

And here is that end result (before and after). Zoinks! (I mean it does look like a cartoon. lol)

Anyway, reading this inspired me to look for cats in medieval art. What I found out is medieval artists did not know how to paint cats! Take a look. Some of them are pretty creepy...and did cats have human faces back then...???







Now that you can't unsee these, I'd like to wish you a happy weekend and 4th of July holiday next week. 




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Thursday, June 21, 2018

#CatThursday - The lives of #cats


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Thursday, June 14, 2018

#CatThursday - #Authors and #Cats (73) Yves Beauchemin


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The second Cat Thursday of each month is Authors and Cats Thursday. Each time I will feature an author with their cat(s), pictured with a cat(s), or guest posts by cat loving authors who also (sometimes) write about cats.

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This month's author, Yves Beauchemin (born 26 June 1941) is a Quebec novelist.

Born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Beauchemin received his degree in French literature and art history at the Université de Montréal in 1965. He taught literature at the Collège Garneau and Université Laval. Beauchemin was working as an editor in a Montreal publishing firm when he began contributing essays and stories to magazines and newspapers. In 1969 he accepted a position as a researcher at Radio-Québec.


Beauchemin's first novel, L'enfirouapé (1974), won the Prix France-Québec. His second novel, Le matou (1981, translated as The Alley Cat - 1986), became the all-time best-selling novel in French Quebec literature and has been translated into seventeen languages. Beauchemin won the Prix Jean Giono for his third novel, Juliette Pormerleau (1989).

In his fiction Beauchemin is a detached but caring observer of the contemporary world around him. The panoramic canvases of his novels capture the teeming life of the streets, reflecting their author's appreciation of such great nineteenth-century writers as Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky and Gogol.

He resides in Longueuil, Quebec. (from Wikipedia)




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Thursday, June 7, 2018

#CatThursday - #Cats and laps


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Sorry about the hiatus last week. I had a cellulitis scare in my leg and felt pretty bad for several days. Thankfully, I was able to take the antibiotics they gave me (without having a reaction. Yay!) and I'm doing so much better. Thanks to Pam for wishing me well. I appreciate it. 






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