‘The greatest picture in the world’: Italy relies on donor to restore Piero della Francesca’s The Resurrection, the masterpiece saved in wartime

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‘The greatest picture in the world’: Italy relies on donor to restore Piero della Francesca’s The Resurrection, the masterpiece saved in wartime

A street in a small town in Italy bears the name of a British officer who risked court martial to save a Renaissance masterpiece from shelling in the Second World War. Yet, Italian art experts have become so worried about the state of the 15th-century fresco dubbed “the greatest picture in the world”, that they have embarked on a major restoration project. The work was only made possible with a hefty donation from a private citizen. Piero della Francesca’s The Resurrection, on display in Sansepolcro in north-east Tuscany, is widely hailed as one of the masterpieces of late 15th-century Italian art. Concerns have been raised that the work is flaking and discoloured, while cracks have become increasingly visible. More details of the work will be announced later this month. It is expected to take between one and three years. Yet the parlous state of the Italian economy has left arts budgets slashed and organisations unable to preserve their masterpieces, so the Government has increasingly turned to private sponsorship.