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<div style="background:#dde; font-size:86%; direction:ltr;">For documentary reasons, this is the original metadata as provided by UNESCO. The <i>Description</i> is contributed by participants in UNESCO's crowdsourcing project. Do not edit this section.</div><pre>BW/Colour: Black and white
City: Florence
Country: Italy
Date range: 04-11-1966 till 11-1966
Description: A restorer climbs on a step-ladder to clean the head of the stoned sculpture with a water pistol. The sculpture was damage in the right hand, losing all the fingers and also have a breach in the right elbow. In the picture, the sculpture looks darker form head to hips (hair) because of the falling water used in the restoration.
English transcr.: ITALY - Florence - 1966 The International Campaign, launched by Unesco, for the preservation and restoration of the works of art of Florence damaged during the floods of November 1966. Here in the Bargello (national museum) scientific cleaning of the statue "La Maddalena" by Fiorentino.
French transcr.: ITALIE - Florence - 1966 Inondations du 4 novembre 1966. Campagne internationale lancée par l'Unesco pour la sauvegarde et la restauration des biens culturels de Florence endommagés par l'inondation. Bargello (Musée national) - Nettoyage scientifique d'une statue de Fiorentino, "La Maddalena", au rez-de-chaussée du Bargello.
Keywords: Restoration | Sculpture | National museums | Cultural heritage | Floods | Damage
Orientation: Portrait
Persons: 
Author: UNESCO / Dominique Roger | ;</pre></div>
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67013607" class="extiw" title="d:Q67013607"><span title="French photographer">Dominique Roger</span></a>
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