The cycle of natural destruction and recovery never ends

Just after the The Wall Street Journal celebrated the success of conservation efforts after the Florence flood of November 1966 with Deborah Ball’s article on the forthcoming unveiling of Vasari’s at- long- last-restored “The Last Supper” (“Resurrecting Vasari’s ‘The Last Supper’”, October 29-30, 2016), came the word that on Sunday morning October 30th, Italy experienced its strongest earthquake in more than thirty years. The earthquake brought great destruction to Norcia and other towns in the Marche region. Years of conservation work will follow. The cycle of natural destruction and recovery never ends.