03-20-2023, 11:42 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...-york-flat
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(Source: Luke Badworth / Above article)
A man renovating his kitchen has found a 400-year-old wall painting of “national significance” in his York flat.
Parts of the friezes, dating back to about 1660, were found by kitchen fitters in Luke Budworth’s flat on Micklegate in York city centre last year and have since been fully uncovered.
The paintings are thought to be older than the buildings at either side of the wall and are based on scenes from the 1635 book Emblems written by the poet Francis Quarles.
Budworth, a medical researcher at the University of Leeds, said it was “bonkers” to think the painting was there before historical events such as the Great Fire of London [in 1666].
Well, there's certainly no chance of this happening with me... my current home didn't even exist in 1990, let alone 1660
!
Still, this is an amazing find... and funny to think it was hiding almost in plain sight for all those years
.
(Source: Luke Badworth / Above article)
A man renovating his kitchen has found a 400-year-old wall painting of “national significance” in his York flat.
Parts of the friezes, dating back to about 1660, were found by kitchen fitters in Luke Budworth’s flat on Micklegate in York city centre last year and have since been fully uncovered.
The paintings are thought to be older than the buildings at either side of the wall and are based on scenes from the 1635 book Emblems written by the poet Francis Quarles.
Budworth, a medical researcher at the University of Leeds, said it was “bonkers” to think the painting was there before historical events such as the Great Fire of London [in 1666].
Well, there's certainly no chance of this happening with me... my current home didn't even exist in 1990, let alone 1660
! Still, this is an amazing find... and funny to think it was hiding almost in plain sight for all those years
.
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