translated by Giorgina Arcuri

If your plans include a visit to the city of Verona, besides the Arena and Juliette’s balcony, a due itinerary is definitely the viewing of one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian Renaissance, the “San Zeno Altarpiece” by Mantegna. It is a shame that to view this work of art by Mantegna, we will have to wait until 21st May 2009, date when the work is scheduled to be placed in the Basilica di San Zeno Maggiore in the Veronese city, in occasion of the saint’s festivity, 550 years after its realization. But where is Mantegna’s “San Zeno Altarpiece” now? It has been at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence for about a year in order to be restored.