[12Gauge687]

Italy is the treasure trove of Western art and artifacts. I remember when Americans and corporations like American Express aided the effort to save the art of Florence (Firenze in Italian) after the floods.

Several years ago, some great art was unearthed under the Cathedral of Siena.

[blackminorca]

That would be a real hoot!

[JoeProBono]

[wideminded]

Vasari had not plastered his work directly on top of Leonardo’s. He had erected new brick walls to hold his murals, and had gone to special trouble to leave a small air gap behind one section of the bricks — the section in back of “Cerca Trova.”

Vasari wrote this about Leonardo:

"In the normal course of events many men and women are born with various remarkable qualities and talents; but occasionally, in a way that transcends nature, a single person is marvellously endowed by heaven with beauty, grace, and talent in such abundance that he leaves other men far behind, and indeed everything he does clearly come from God rather than from human art."

"Everyone acknowledged that this was true of Leonardo da Vinci, an artist of outstanding physical beauty who displayed infinite grace in everything he did and who cultivated his genius so brilliantly that all problems he studied he solved with ease. He possessed great strength and dexterity; he was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind ..."

- Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists, Penguin Classics

[Grammy]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

An Interview with Rab Hatfield
http://www.theflorentine.net/lifestyle/2007/04/an-interview-with-rab-hatfield/

An interview with Peter Weller
http://www.theflorentine.net/lifestyle/2007/10/an-interview-with-peter-weller/

Florence Journal; The Warts on Michelangelo: The Man Was a Miser
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/world/florence-journal-the-warts-on-michelangelo-the-man-was-a-miser.html

Discovery by SU Florence professor in Botticelli masterpiece becomes subject of BBC documentary
https://www.syr.edu/news/articles/2010/botticelli-mystic-nativity-02-10.html