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Chapter 335 Dürer’s huge oil painting
..."Hello, brother, I would like to ask, where are we...?" Liu Dong pointed to the front and asked with a smile.
Hearing this, he glanced at the red note in his hand, and then put it into his pocket. The skinny middle-aged man's attitude immediately improved a lot, and he quickly replied: "Oh, you ask this! This is not the market.
Li has just issued a document to comprehensively restore the old villas in Badaguan. I heard that experts have been specially invited from Canada and Germany, so we, the people from the Badaguan Subdistrict Office, are asked to clean up these villas that have been in disrepair for many years!
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Hearing this, Liu Dong nodded.
"Looking at how dilapidated this house is, it must be quite old, right?" Liu Dong continued.
"No, this house is said to have been built by the Germans before liberation. Anyway, no one has lived in it for many years. Otherwise, the yard wouldn't be like this!" As he said that, the thin middle-aged man pointed to the lush foliage in the yard.
There are lush wild grasses and thick leaves under the feet.
"So that's it!" Liu Dong nodded, "Can I go over and have a look?"
"Look, it's okay, but it's a little dirty inside. Pay attention when you go in!" Looking at Liu Dong's tip of at least 500 yuan just now, the thin middle-aged man happily agreed to his request.
"Thank you, I will pay attention!" After saying that, Liu Dong walked forward, and Mu Gang and others followed. Although there were a lot of people, the people from the two street offices were not organized, and this
It wasn't a big deal originally. There was nothing valuable in this dilapidated house that had been abandoned for nearly a hundred years.
Liu Dong took a few steps and did not go into the house immediately. Instead, he walked to the side and stopped in front of the huge oil painting placed in the shadow in the corner. At the beginning, he was attracted by this painting.
I was attracted by the painting, so I stopped the car.
The scroll is very large. The length is nearly 9 meters and the height is a little over 4 meters. The content in the scroll has never been seen by Liu Dong in any book or appreciation album about famous Western oil paintings before. However, the relic Yuan Guangzhong
The rich and dazzling white aura on the painting cannot fool anyone!
Suppressing the surging passion in his heart, Liu Dong stretched out his right hand and gently placed it on the canvas of the oil painting. Immediately, the identification results appeared above the relics in the mustard space.
","The Cry of the Liberator", 1518, Germany!"
"This is Dürer's painting?!" Liu Dong was secretly surprised.
, is an epoch-making artist in the history of German art. He spread the forms and theories of the Italian Renaissance to northern Europe, created and laid the tradition and foundation of the German national painting school, and greatly influenced the subsequent development of German art.
.This versatile and knowledgeable master was a painter, sculptor, architect, and art theorist. He was one of the greatest representatives of the European Renaissance and was known as the "Germany"!
Liu Dong felt lucky to be able to see the paintings of this Renaissance master. However, Liu Dong had never heard of this giant oil painting, but the content in the picture should be related to the European religious reform movement. View it at Liu Dong
From the previous introductions about Dürer's life, I learned that this German art giant once supported the religious reform movement at that time, sympathized with the Peasants' War, and ended his creative path with the design of the Peasants' War Monument.
So Liu Dong guessed that in the center of this picture, there is a person wearing a black divine robe, holding a Bible in his left hand, and holding up some white paper with written words in his right hand, standing on a high platform and shouting loudly.
However, this painting reflects a specific event in the religious reform. Liu Dong didn't know. After all, apart from the historical knowledge he learned in previous textbooks, he didn't know much about the details of Western history.
many.
But it doesn’t matter if you don’t know. Liu Dong is determined to get this painting. If such a huge Dürer painting were to be auctioned, I’m afraid it wouldn’t fetch 100 million U.S. dollars, and he wouldn’t even be qualified to participate.
"You two, I have something to ask you." Liu Dong walked up to two staff members from the Badaguan Street Office who were sitting under the shade of a tree to avoid the harsh midday sun and asked.
"What are you talking about?" The thin middle-aged man who had received Liu Dong's favor before seemed a little enthusiastic at the moment.
"It's like this, brother, I usually like to collect. This time I have taken a fancy to a few things here. I want to buy them. Please be accommodating!" Liu Dong put his left and right hands into his pockets, and then from the Mustard Seed Space
He took out 20,000 yuan and put it covertly into their hands.
Looking at the thick red tickets in their hands, the skinny middle-aged man and the squat companion next to him had a hint of greed in their eyes. After the two looked at each other, they turned their hands and put the money in their pockets.
inside.
They felt comfortable collecting the money, because the things in the villa were already very dilapidated, and the street office asked them to tidy them up just to throw away the rotten furniture that could not be used. Now Liu Dong actually spent such a large sum of money.
If he wants to buy it, then they can just sell it to him. Then he only needs to write a conclusion in the report that it was seriously damaged and has been discarded, and everything will be fine.
But what they didn't expect was that Liu Dong was so generous, ten thousand per person! It was more than half their salary for a year. The two of them were very happy when they got this extra money.
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. If you like something, brother, feel free to take it, but don't go too far. Leave something behind and it will be easier for us brothers to do business!" The smile on the face of the thin middle-aged man was particularly bright.
"Haha, don't worry, you two! I only need two or three items here!"
After finishing speaking, the three of them looked at each other and laughed, understanding each other tacitly.
Although Xie Zhonglin, who saw this scene from a distance, understood the deal between the two parties, he didn't know what Liu Dong saw in this place.
"Could it be this oil painting?" Xie Zhonglin shook his head. Although this painting was very well done, he didn't know what was so good about it.
And just when he was wondering about Liu Dong's behavior just now, Liu Dong had already walked back.
"Brother Mu, help me lay this painting flat!"
After listening to Liu Dong's instructions, Mu Gang did as he was told, and the two of them worked together to lay the picture frame flat on the ground.
Gently stroking this Dürer painting, which was nearly 400 years old and whose paint had cracked, Liu Dong thought to himself: "Because of you, the light of this relic has shrunk again!"
Immediately, unable to be seen by others, a burst of rich relic light emerged from Liu Dong's hands, and then evenly covered the surface of the painting, and then began to slowly repair the giant oil painting.
.And this can also ensure that the painting will not be damaged in any way when Liu Dong rolls it up.
Of course, if the painting was not too big, even the frame would be too troublesome to carry. Liu Dong would not be willing to waste the relic Yuan Guang to quickly repair it, because if it is placed directly in the mustard space, the repair will be slow, but there is no need to reduce the size.
At the expense of the size of the mustard space.
Without further ado, after Liu Dong finished some work, he asked Mu Gang to carefully remove the frame of the oil painting, and then Liu Dong slowly and carefully rolled up the giant oil painting from one side.
, Liu Dong also saw some words behind this painting.
However, because it was in German, Liu Dong didn't understand a word of it, so he had to wait for someone to translate it later.
Soon, the scroll that was originally nine meters long turned into a cloth scroll more than four meters long and more than 20 centimeters in diameter in Liu Dong's hands.
Asking Mu Gang to wait outside with this precious oil painting in his arms, Liu Dong walked towards the main entrance of the villa. Because it was too dirty and messy inside, Xie Zhonglin did not follow.
After passing through the main entrance, which is nearly two meters wide and about three and a half meters high, you are greeted by a broad hall with an area of more than 150 square meters. Perhaps because no one has lived there for a long time, the hall looks a bit dark. The hall looks a bit dark.
Most of the furniture such as sofas inside has been moved outside by workers, and the more than nine-meter-long blank space on the wall to the left of Liu Dong is believed to be where Dürer's paintings were originally secured.
Seeing Liu Dong, a very clean young man wearing a dark red shirt, walk in, the busy workers glanced at him and then went about their business without anyone talking to him, a city man.
Walking through the hall, although thick dust accumulated here, Liu Dong could still tell from the luxurious crystal chandeliers, the slightly old but still very gorgeous wallpapers, and the dusty carpets under his feet that this place was just built.
The grandeur and the owner's luxurious life. However, as time goes by, the original magnificence has disappeared after a hundred years.
Shaking his head with emotion, Liu Dong came to the corner of the hall, in front of a huge floor clock with a height of more than one meter and a width of fifty. Because the time was too far apart, this world-famous mechanical clock brand, Germany's Hemler
'The products of 1932 have stopped turning.
However, the rich aura above told Liu Dong that this was a clock worth collecting, and it was also the first clock he had received. Turning around, he saw that the workers were busy moving things and no one noticed him.
Liu Dong took this large floor clock into the Mustard Seed space.
Then he walked towards the gorgeous dining room next to the living room. The restaurant is open-plan. In the center of the restaurant is a large marble-topped bar. On both sides of the bar are European-style cabinets and operating tables. Although these old furniture are all made of solid wood,
There is still some value, but Liu Dong's goal is not them. (To be continued)