FLORENCE, ITALY – Restoration work on Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection, a fresco in the civic museum of the Tuscan town of Sansepolcro where the painter was born, has revealed that the painting was originally created elsewhere and moved to its current location.
The incredible alert was sent by Cecilia Frosinini, head of the restoration project to the national news agency ANSA. Frosinini, who directs the Mural and Fresco Conservation Department at Florence’s Opificio Pietre Dure museum, said recent investigations have shown that the fresco was cut down and moved from its original location most likely sometime after Della Francesca’s death in 1492, for reasons that are still unknown.
The work’s move was probably the first of its type in the modern age, utilizing a technique that differed from the one known by experts and used in the 16th century by Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari.
An expert archivist is now looking at archives to try to discover where the fresco was originally painted and why it was moved.
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