Pigeons help restoration workers rediscover 15th century fresco
Submitted by Editor on 26/6/04 – 12:00No Comment
At Valencia, Spain an art restoration team with the help of some pigeons have re-discovered a 15th century fresco that had been covered up for more than 300 years.
The team had been working on the large dome of the cathedral removing paint and pigeons flying in through a hole. Javier Catala, the team leader, decided to stick a digital camera through the hole and took pictures blindly. The results showed partial but fabulous images of the preserved fresco.
The fresco, it is believed, was painted in 1481 by the Italian painters Francesco Pagano and Paolo de San Leocadio and is one of the earliest surviving examples of Italian renaissance art.
