In 1993, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy was damaged by a car bomb. But this story starts in the 16th century with painter Bartolomeo Manfredi, and reaches all the way to the 2000s with an extraordinary restoration project. Research: <ul> <li>&ldquo;600 fragments and one photograph. The restoration of Bartolomeo Manfredi&rsquo;s &ldquo;Card Players.&rdquo; Scala Archives. May 23, 2023. https://scalarchives.com/600-fragments-and-one-photograph-the-restoration-of-bartolomeo-manfredis-card-players/#:~:text=The%20Georgofili%20bombing%20also%20left,to%20have%20been%20destroyed%20forever.</li> <li>Clough, Patricia. &ldquo;Blast Tears Apart 400 Years of Italy&rsquo;s Heritage.&rdquo; The Independent. May 28, 1993. https://www.newspapers.com/image/718976357/?match=1&terms=uffizi</li> <li>Cowell, Alan. &ldquo;Italians Try to Place Blame For Bomb Damage at Uffizi.&rdquo; New York Times. May 29, 1993. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/29/world/italians-try-to-place-blame-for-bomb-damage-at-uffizi.html</li> <li>&ldquo;Cupid Chastised.&rdquo; Art Institute of Chicago. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/59847/cupid-chastised</li> <li>&ldquo;Documentation of the damage from the 1993 bombing in Via dei Georgofili.&rdquo; Uffizi Galleries. https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/documentation-damage-1993-bombing-georgofili</li> <li>Folkestad, William B. and Mark Miller. &ldquo;Bomb Damages the Uffizi Gallery.&rdquo; EBSCO. 2023. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/bomb-damages-uffizi-gallery</li> <li>Follain, John. &ldquo;Push Comes to Shove at Italy&rsquo;s Uffizi.&rdquo; Miami Herald. March 21, 1993. https://www.newspapers.com/image/637973344/?match=1&terms=uffizi</li> <li>Gage, Frances. &ldquo;Caravaggio&rsquo;s&nbsp;Rumore: Fact, Fiction and Authority in Giovanni Baglione&rsquo;s&nbsp;Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects.&rdquo;&nbsp;Past & Present. Volume 257, Issue Supplement_16, November 2022, Pages 111&ndash;140.&nbsp;https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac031</li> <li>&ldquo;History of the Uffizi Gallery.&rdquo; https://www.visituffizi.org/museum/history/</li> <li>Kimmelman, Michael. &ldquo;Bombed Uffizi Begins Recovery.&rdquo; Berkshire Eagle. June 20, 1993. https://www.newspapers.com/image/533051992/?match=1&terms=uffizi</li> <li>Moir, Alfred. &ldquo;An Examination of Bartolomeo Manfredi's &lsquo;Cupid Chastised.&rsquo;&rdquo; Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies , Spring, 1985, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Spring, 1985), pp. 156-167. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4108732</li> <li>Morselli, Raffaella. &ldquo;Bartolomeo Manfredi and Pomarancio: Some New Documents.&rdquo; The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 129, No. 1015 (Oct., 1987), pp. 666-668. https://www.jstor.org/stable/883135</li> <li>Nicolson, Benedict. &ldquo;Caravaggesques in Florence.&rdquo; The Burlington Magazine. Sep., 1970, Vol. 112, No. 810 (Sep., 1970), pp. 636+639- 641. https://www.jstor.org/stable/876434</li> <li>Pianigiani, Gaia. &ldquo;Florence&rsquo;s Answer to Mafia Violence: A Painting&rsquo;s Loving Restoration.&rdquo; New York Times. May 25, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/world/europe/uffizi-florence-mafia-card-player.html</li> <li>Robb, Peter. &ldquo;M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio.&rdquo; Henry Holt and Co. 2015.</li> <li>&ldquo;Uffizi: on display two masterpieces damaged by the 1993 Georgofili mafia attack.&rdquo; Uffizi Galleries. https://www.uffizi.it/en/events/georgofili-commemoration-2024</li> <li>Wakin, Daniel J. &ldquo;Prosecutor Joins Italy Bomb Probe.&rdquo; Florence Morning News. May 16, 1993. https://www.newspapers.com/image/985131856/?match=1&terms=%22Maurizio%20Costanzo%22</li> <li>&ldquo;World: Europe Mafia bosses jailed for life.&rdquo; BBC. June 6, 1998. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/108127.stm</li> </ul>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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