{"id":161931,"date":"2025-09-26T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/161931\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:13:08","slug":"saving-at-risk-paintings-at-blenheim-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/161931\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving at risk paintings at Blenheim Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Masterpiece&#8221; paintings at risk from a deteriorating palace roof are being protected by a new \u00a31m conservation project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blenheim Palace said the works were at risk of being &#8220;lost forever&#8221; if the project was not carried out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The paintings being restored are the Great Hall ceiling work by Sir James Thornhill from 1716 and Louis Laguerre&#8217;s paintings of the Battle of Blenheim in dining room The Saloon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scheme forms part of a \u00a312m restoration of the palace&#8217;s roof, set to finish in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Masterpiece&#8221; paintings at risk from a deteriorating palace roof are being protected by a new \u00a31m conservation project.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-161931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}