“It is of course not self-evident, it is a natural stone statue,” says Katrien Deckers, architect at the study department of buildings in the city of Leuven. ‘We first had to be sure of the physical condition of the statue and that there were no flaws. The question was also how the statue was fixed in the niche. That is why we did research in advance with a cherry picker and a stone restorer. This showed that it is completely covered in the mortar at the bottom and that it is attached to the niche with a hook at the back. ”
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