When Steven Woloshin, an American physician, first noticed the 600-year-old fresco of a Crucifixion by the Renaissance grasp Fra Angelico inside a cloistered convent in January final yr, he was blown away.
“I instantly thought that is probably the most superb factor I’ve seen,” he stated lately. The picture’s simplicity and energy overwhelmed him, he stated.
His second thought was the that fresco wanted some love.
That’s when Woloshin turned to Dr. Camilla Alderighi and Dr. Raffaele Rasoini, the 2 cardiologists who had introduced him to see the fresco within the Convent of San Domenico in Fiesole, the hilltop city overlooking Florence, and stated, “Nicely, why not restore it?”
A couple of years in the past, bonding over a mutual love of issues cultural, the three shaped a company referred to as Bottega Belacqua that goals to tug off “inconceivable desires,” Woloshin stated. The restoration of the fresco was their first official enterprise in Italy.
