Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 834 Sculpture
The discovery of the replica of the discus thrower had visibly excited everyone, so at night when excavations were not suitable, everyone gathered in the improvised living room to watch Leon restore the statues.

Undoubtedly, the restoration work, especially the restoration work of this kind of historic cultural relics, is a very complicated matter. Normally, a complete set of equipment and a sufficient number of professionals are required to work for a long time.

And the reason why everyone is gathered in the living room now is because Liang En decided to use his extraordinary power to put these pieces back together at this time.

As for the Carrara marble needed, it came from this castle. They found several apparently abandoned Carrara marble flower stands and shelves in a warehouse.

After realizing that these things were modern products produced in the 70s and [-]s rather than antiques, they quickly smashed these abandoned gadgets with the tools they carried with them as materials for the next restoration work.

When everything was ready, Liang En activated a [Repair (R)] and then looked at the pile of things in front of him, only to find that the pile of things in front of him was not 3~4 sculptures, but only two sculptures. indivual.

The reason for such a large error is that Liang En subconsciously thought that the rest of the sculpture should be damaged as a whole after seeing how the whole sculpture was shattered, so the volume was calculated as 60%~70% of the normal sculpture.

But now it seems that although these sculptures are indeed broken, at least in terms of overall volume, they are still relatively intact, so most of the sculptures are here.

For other historians to try to recover these are absolutely extremely complicated.Because many marble fragments are only the size of a thumb, and basically can't see what they looked like originally.

In this case, if you want to restore it, you need to invest a lot of experience and time and make repeated attempts. It may often take several years to complete the restoration work.

But for Liang En, the current job is very simple. He only needs to use the power of cards to gather all the fragments belonging to the same sculpture together, and then consume the cards to restore these fragments.

Because of the effect of the cards, they collected all the fragments that could be collected. In addition to these found fragments, Liang En also took out about 1m of soil containing fragments from the big pit outside.

It was not easy to find things from the 2m to 3m deep pit at night. Fortunately, four people worked together to complete the work in a short period of time.

Fortunately, they didn't need to pick out the gravel pieces one by one, they just gathered all the gravel-coated soil together and pulled them into the castle with a small cart.

Relative to complicated preparations.Liang En's recovery process was not difficult. With the use of the cards, a lot of light enveloped the originals piled up there and the marble materials prepared before.

The repair this time is obviously much more complicated than the repairs of those gadgets before, so the whole light lasted for more than half an hour before gradually disappearing.

After the light disappeared, what appeared in front of everyone was a building of about 1m5.The young man stood there with fists in front of his chest in a lunge. The only clothing on his body was a layer of cloth wrapped around his hands.

"This should be a boxer." Liang En recognized what was carved on this statue after seeing it for the first time, because it was obviously the attire of an ancient Olympic boxer.

Unlike the modern Olympic Games, the ancient Olympic Games had relatively few events, mainly traditional running, wrestling, pentathlon, boxing, chariot racing, etc., and they absolutely did not wear clothes during the competition.

For this reason, the ancient Olympic Games can basically be seen as a purely male event, but women at that time also had their own Gaia festival and held competitions in the festival.

"This is definitely a masterpiece." Looking at the restored marble statue, Mary gently stretched out her hand to caress the sculpture while muttering in a low voice.

"It's hard to imagine that someone could create such a masterpiece 2000 years ago. Look at the muscle lines and bones on the sculpture. This sculpture method was once lost in the Middle Ages. It was not until the Renaissance that it was rediscovered—— "

Marie Antoinette's love for art was absolutely real.So for her, after seeing such a fine work, she was naturally attracted to it.

"That's right, it is indeed a masterpiece of art from the ancient Greek era. Although it is said to be an imitation of the ancient Roman era, it basically replicates the core spirit of the original work." Liang En nodded and said.

After acquiring the inheritance of a series of art masters, Liang En is no less than most so-called art connoisseurs in terms of art appreciation, so he can naturally see the level of this sculpture.

After a thorough inspection of the sculpture, they found a raised text on the base and the name: Myron, which also proved that the sculpture and the discus thrower were from the same hand.

This sculptor named Myron was active from about 480 BC to 440 BC. Although he was born in Eleuthera, he was basically active in Athens, the cultural center of ancient Greece at that time, and he was one of the famous sculptors in the classical Greek period. .

He is good at making bronze statues. His works break through the rigid form of sculpture in the archaic period, transforming the sculpture style of Greek statues from the rigid style of Egypt to the simulation of people, and pushing the art of Greek sculpture to a new peak.Especially the details.

He is good at grasping the exact structure of the human body and its changing relationship in motion, and achieving the balance and harmony of spirit and body.It is considered to be the founder of the golden age of Greek art - the classical period.

Therefore, his works have always been regarded as top-level works of art in the following days. For example, in the 2nd century AD, the Roman emperor who advocated ancient Greek civilization ordered people to recreate his most famous work "The Discus Thrower".

Now it seems that there are definitely more than three replicas ordered by the Roman emperor, and it is not limited to this discus thrower. However, such things are generally rarely recorded, so it is reasonable to suddenly find sculptures here.

After the sculpture of the boxer was repaired, Liang En simply repaired it for 15 minutes, and then used today's second [Repair (R)] card to repair the replica of the discus thrower.

Like the first sculpture, the second sculpture was also successfully restored. After the two works were completely restored, Liang En quickly activated his extraordinary power to re-melt the two pieces that were only glued together.

This change will not affect the shape and historical value of the entire sculpture, but the firmness of the sculpture has been raised by more than one step, which can be regarded as a higher-level restoration, but it is a pity that this is a unique skill that others cannot learn.

"So tomorrow we should be very busy." After finishing the final inspection, Liang En took two steps back and pointed to the sculpture in front of him and said to the three ladies present.

"If the fragments that are randomly discarded outside are so valuable, the things buried below will definitely exceed our imagination. I firmly believe this."

(End of this chapter)