Opera per Santa Maria Novella

After a nine-month rehabilitation, the wooden Crucifix by Brunelleschi is back in the Gondi Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella. The intervention, to the tune of €250,000, was financed entirely by the Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze. According to project manager Ugo Muccini, the restoration "involved the entire decoration: marbles, floors, altar, windows and even the frescoes in the sails of the vault, attributed to Greek painters active in Florence at the end of the 13th century."

RESTORATION OF THE OPIFICIO - the Brunelleschi Crucifix now occupies the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (Stone Workshop) where, Superintendent Lapi stated, "some old plastering and restorations made in the past have been removed helping to recover the original polychromy". At the unveiling of the restoration work, local dignitaries and business leaders had their say, including the Superintendent of the Florentine Museums, Cristina Acidini, the Superintendent of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Isabella Lapi, the President of the Opera per Santa Maria Novella, Father Alessandro Salucci, Manager Director of the Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Antonio Gherdovich, and Chairman of the City Council, Eugenio Giani.