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FLORENCE (REUTERS).- Restorers using ultra-violet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto’s paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence’s Santa Croce church that have been hidden for centuries. “We have uncovered a secret Giotto,” said Isabella Lapi Ballerini, head of Florence’s Opificio delle Pietre Dure, one of the world’s most prestigious art restoration laboratories. Last year, more than a dozen restorers and researchers began an ambitious project of “non-invasive diagnostics” to ascertain the condition of the 12-meter-high chapel, which Giotto painted in about 1320. The aim of the study, partly funded by a grant from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles, was to gather information on the 170 square meter (1,830 square feet) chapel to use as a road map and “hospital chart” for
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