A polyptych by Piero della Francesca
for a church in his home town near Arezzo has been reassembled
for the first time, some 555 years after it was dismembered and
its several parts sent to various other places.
Dismembered at the end of the 16th century, the Augustinian
Polyptych painted by Piero for the high altar of the church of
the Augustinians at Borgo San Sepolcro in the Aretine area has
been reassembled at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan.
The museum has managed to reunite the eight known panels (the
central panel and most of the predella have gone missing),
joining his St. Nicholas, the four from the Frick Collection in
New York and those from the National Gallery in London, the
National in Washington and the Museum of Antique Art in Lisbon
to display them in the exhibition 'Piero della Francesca and the
reunited Augustinian Polyptych'.
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