On 11th March 1944, a group of bombs launched from an Allied airplane hit the famous Italian Eremitani's Church in Padova (Italy), destroying it together with the inestimable frescoes by Andrea Mantegna et al. contained in the Ovetari Chapel. People picked up and collected what was remaining of one of the most important operas of the Italian Renaissance, saving the fragments in some improvised boxes constructed with the wood of the sits of the Church. Several attempts to restore these fragments by traditional methods have been done in the last 60 years, without much success. Since 1998, Massimo Fornasier (now at RICAM as Junior Researcher) has been involved in the fascinating attempt to recall to life these frescoes, by using mathematical methods and computer based techniques. Recently, together with Domenico Toniolo, a fast, robust, and efficient pattern recognition algorithm has been developed in order to detect the right position and orientation of the fragments, by means of the comparison with an old gray level image of the fresco prior to the damage. The result of the computer-assisted recomposition is the real restoration of these frescoes that will be visible in Padova from September 16 2006 in the context of the exhibition dedicated to the Mantegna's anniversary.

Links for more information:

http://www.pd.infn.it/~labmante/
http://www.acri.it/16_ingl/16_ingl_files/Broch_Ing/BCCTC_Sc1_1_8.pdf
http://www.patrimoniosos.it/rsol.php?op=getarticle&id=20196
http://www.italica.rai.it/index.php?categoria=art&scheda=mantegna

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