{"id":13676,"date":"2015-12-13T11:59:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T16:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=13676"},"modified":"2015-12-13T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T16:59:35","slug":"am-i-being-too-cynical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/12\/13\/am-i-being-too-cynical\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I being too cynical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief note in The New York Times (\u201cA Digital Substitute for a Stolen Caravaggio\u201d, by Elisabetta Povoledo, December 12, 2015) and a longer post in The Daily Mail Online (\u201cPainting Stolen by the Mafia is Resurrected\u201d, by Gian Volpicelli, December 11, 2015) present the news that a team of conservators, computer experts and artists utilizing digital scans of both a photo of that painting and other paintings by Caravaggio, have recreated Caravaggio\u2019s \u201cNativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence\u201d which was stolen from the Oratorio di San Lorenzo in Palermo in 1969. As we welcome the technology (I am sure that\u00a0each of us can think of a number of works of art for which it could be applied), would I be a cynic to take note of the fact that the reproduction was commissioned by the Sky Television Network which will broadcast \u201cMystery of the Lost Caravaggio\u201d, a documentary about the process, in 2016?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief note in The New York Times (\u201cA Digital Substitute for a Stolen Caravaggio\u201d, by Elisabetta Povoledo, December 12, 2015) and a longer post in The Daily Mail Online (\u201cPainting Stolen by the Mafia is Resurrected\u201d, by Gian Volpicelli, December 11, 2015) present the news that a team of conservators, computer experts and artists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/12\/13\/am-i-being-too-cynical\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Am I being too cynical?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}