Prague, Sept 23, 2026 (AFP) - Battered Duerer masterpiece up for five-year revamp

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Albrecht Duerer's "Feast of the Rosary", a Renaissance gem of Prague's National Gallery, is facing a painstaking five-year reconstruction designed to set right five centuries of mistreatment and damage. Experts have pointed out the poor condition of the colourful painting that the German master created for the San Bartolomeo church in Venice in 1506. "Its state of preservation has been poor since the late sixteenth century," University of Texas a......

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