The New York Times has an article on the repair work on the internationally renowned frescoes of the cathedral in Port- au-Prince released. Photos from the article by Damien Cave can be found on the website of the U.S. newspaper and the website of the Smithsonian Institute. The links are at the end of the translated to find the text:
Haiti - colorful but sad, beautiful but cracked, the three remaining murals in the Episcopal Trinity Cathedral, from the gentle afternoon sun is replaced, but only because the rest of the church was destroyed in the earthquake last year . The Haitians come over here, everyone looks worried. All 14 frescoes in the cathedral had been internationally acknowledged as works of art. Painted in the early 50's during an artistic renaissance in the country, they presented with a proud, local political perspective biblical scenes: a Jesus who in the Ascension, a Haitian flag with him with an almost unique Last Supper, where Judas is not an exception with a darker skin color than the other apostles.
"All this was painted from a Haitian perspective," said the Rev. David Cesar, the chief priest of the Cathedral and director of the affiliated school. He adored to the left standing by a miracle picture of Judas who is depicted with a white Bard and long white hair - characteristics that are usually attributed to God Himself. It had always been his favorite fresco, he said, and that it was preserved.
In a partnership between the Episcopal Church and the Smithsonian Institute were stabilized all three remaining wall paintings and carefully placed in an air-conditioned warehouse in Haiti, where they are protected until they can move into a new home. The hard, had to 18 months term project begun in the fall, as restorers examined how the paintings had been applied to analyze the plaster (on a damp mortar) and the colors (mixed media). From the outset it was clear that the frescoes were fragile.
own translation of the article by Damien Cave
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/world/americas/23haiti.html
http://www.haiti.si.edu/index.html
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