I love how they tried to mimick parts of the church covered by the billboard, in the billboard.

  • Abraman@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    2 years ago

    From what i read elsewhere the ad covers the restoration work being done, in both senses of the word, and will only be up until January 2023. Still, i feel like the Catholic church is rich enough to pay for this on their own…

    • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.mlOP
      10·
      2 years ago

      TBH, I don’t care for Catholicism at all, but I do like architecture, and I can appreciate maintaining and restoring iconic structures like this.

      At the same time though, why not show the process of restoring it? I’d love to see what’s actually being done behind that billboard.

      • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        2 years ago

        They don’t want us to see it being repaired papier mâché.

        I’d also like to see the work being done. They do a similar thing in Italy, too, hanging a picture of building in front of the scaffolding when it’s being renovated – but the whole building. I wonder whether the execs responsible for this kind of thing think tourists will stop coming if they ‘see’ the construction works. Tbh I can fully believe the suits making these decisions to be so bereft of artistic appreciation that they think others are like them and won’t really notice the difference between a picture and the real thing.

        We may be looking at the same contradiction that leads museums and galleries to obsess over original pieces, even though the curators are often duped by replicas or try to dupe the public with replicas.

        Back to the topic in hand: have you read Ken Follet’s Pillars of the Earth or The Evening and the Morning?