Restoration work recently concluded on the Fonticine tabernacle, a monumental Della Robbia masterpiece located along via Nazionale, one of downtown Florence's busiest thoroughfares. Amid the bustle of noonday traffic on December 12, the updated monument was unveiled to a crowd of community supporters, local and regional officials and press.
Costs for the project, which was funded and carried out entirely by the Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici, totaled around 90,000 euro. Professor Lorenzo Casamenti, head of the institute's Restoration department, managed a team of students and expert restorers over an eight-month period.
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