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RESURRECTED: JESUS IN TUSCANY ; It was rescued twice from destruction. Now Piero della Francesca's fresco 'The Resurrection' is at the centre of a celebration of his work, currently on show in Tuscany, says Claudia Pritchard

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20070520
Author:Claudia Pritchard

The best picture in the world, according to the author Aldous Huxley, was at the end of a seven-hour bus ride through the Appenines - from Urbino in Le Marche/Umbria to San Sepolcro in Tuscany.

"Borgo San Sepolcro is not easy to get at," is the tetchy opening to his essay "The Best Picture", published in Along the Road. He then writes off one o fthe loveliest small towns in Tuscany in a couple of lines before focusing on the 15th-century pic-turebyPiero dellaFrancesca whichis thetown'semblem, and which, quite simply, saved lives and homes from bombardment in 1944.

Piero is the thread that ...

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