Restorers demonstrate their resoration technique on a detail of a reproduction of Giotto's 13th cent..,...

Restorers demonstrate their resoration technique on a detail of a reproduction of Giotto's 13th century fresco of Saint Rufus at Saint Francis' Basilica in Assisi September 26, 2002. [Giotto's fresco which was splintered into tens of thousands of pieces on September 26, 1997 when a killer eathquake hit Italy was restored after one of the most ambitious and painstaking restorations in art history. The Fresco, which Giotto is believed to have painted in 1288, ends the second phase of a three-part restoration of the ceiling greatly damaged in the quake five years ago.]