Tiny Tuscan Town Spends Decades Battling Over A Piero Della Francesca Fresco

“For decades, [Piero’s Madonna del Parto] has been entangled in the type of distinctly Italian bureaucratic standoff that can bend time as well as logic. The contested issue is how and where the fresco should be displayed. The Roman Catholic Church is involved. So is the Ministry of Culture. There has been litigation. There have been government committees. There have been TV specials.”