February 07, 2013
ANSA, LA STAMPA, LA REPUBBLICA (Italy)
FLORENCE- It only took a step in the wrong place by a worker doing maintenance in the floor above to bust through a 500-year-old fresco in the famed Uffizi Gallery.
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According to ANSA news agency, the fallen piece depicted an allegorical female figure from the 16th Century. The fallen piece is about 30-centimeters wide Antonio Natali, the Uffizzi director, didn't seem to shaken. “The fallen fragments have all been recovered and now our conservator will put them back in their original form, like with a puzzle,” Natali said, according to La Repubblica.
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