CRISTINA ACIDINI: High school student and mud angel in 1966. Now superintendent of museums in Florence and chief of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure
UMBERTO BALDINI (1921–2006): art historian and theorist of art restoration. From 1949 director of the Gabinetto dei Restauri and from 1970 of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, which merged with the Gabinetto in 1975
PIERO BARGELLINI (1897–1980): belletrist and mayor of Florence
BERNARD BERENSON (1865–1959): art historian and connoisseur
BRANCACCI CHAPEL: Frescoed c. 1425 by Masaccio and Masolino, in Santa Maria del Carmine
CESARE BRANDI (1906–88): art restoration theorist and founder of the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro in Rome
FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI (1377–1446): architect of the Ospedale degli Innocenti, Santo Spirito, the dome of the Duomo, and the Pazzi Chapel at Santa Croce
CAMALDOLI: monastery of the Camaldolese Benedictine order in the Casentine Forests
ARNOLFO DI CAMBIO (C. 1240–C. 1310): sculptor and architect of the Basilica of Santa Croce and the Duomo
CAPO D’ARNO: source of the Arno on Monte Falterona
CASA DEL POPOLO: Community center and Communist Party headquarters in the Santa Croce quarter
ORNELLA CASAZZA: restoration theorist/scientist and restorer, with Paola Bracco, of the Cimabue Crocifisso and the Brancacci Chapel
CASENTINE FORESTS: mountainous wilderness southeast of Florence that includes Monte Falterona
CENACOLO: a painting of the Last Supper (also referred to as L’Ultima Cena)
CHROMATIC ABSTRACTION: four-color infilling technique devised by Ornella Casazza for large gaps in the Cimabue Crocifisso
MARCO CIATTI: director of the restoration laboratory of Opificio delle Pietre Dure at the Fortezza
CIMABUE (C. 1240–1303): nickname (“bull head”) of the Florentine painter Bencivieni di Pepo
EDWARD GORDON CRAIG (1872–1966): actor, producer, director, scenic designer, and author
CROCIFISSO: “crucifix,” here one painted on large planks by Cimabue c. 1288, about fourteen feet in height, and hung over the high altar of the Basilica of Santa Croce
DONATELLO (C. 1386–1466): Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, sculptor of the Baptistry Maddalena
DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA (C. 1255–C. 1318): Sienese painter and probable creator of the Rucellai Madonna
TADDEO GADDI (C. 1300–1366): architect of the Ponte Vecchio and painter of The Last Supper and The Tree of Life in the Santa Croce refectory
GIOTTO DI BONDONE (C. 1267–1337): apprentice to Cimabue and painter of the Peruzzi and Bardi chapels at Santa Croce as well as the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, and frescoes at the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi
SUSAN GLASSPOOL: art student and mud angel in 1966. Now a translator and painter in Florence
GORGA NERA: “black throat,” a lake near the Capo d’Arno, in legend connected underground to the Tyrrhenian Sea
MARCO GRASSI: restorer/mud angel in 1966. Later curator of the Thyssen art collections and now a private restorer based in Florence and New York
FREDERICK HARTT (1914–91): art historian and lieutenant in the Commission for Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives of the U.S. Army. Author of Italian Renaissance Art and cofounder of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art in 1966
NICK KRACZYNA: artist, married to Amy Luckenbach
LA VERNA: rugged wilderness in the Casentine Forests where Saint Francis received the stigmata
DAVID LEES (1917–2004): photographer
DOROTHY LEES (1880–1966): author and journalist
LUNGARNO (PLURAL, LUNGARNI): streets fronting the Arno
AMY LUCKENBACH: artist, married to Nick Kraczyna
MAESTÀ: a panel painting of Madonna and infant Jesus with angels and saints
GIOVANNI MENDUNI: middle-school student in 1966. Now director of L’Autorità di Bacino del Fiume Arno (Arno River Basin Authority)
JOE NKRUMAH: chemist and book restorer. Now retired director of the National Museum of Ghana and conservator of the National Museums and Monuments Board in Accra, Ghana
GIUSEPPE POGGI (1811–1901): Florence city engineer and urban planner
UGO PROCACCI (1905–91): art historian and theorist of art restoration. Founder of the Gabinetto dei Restauri and later superintendent of monuments and fine arts for Florence
BRUNO SANTI: art history postgraduate student in 1966. Now superintendent for the historic, artistic, and anthropological heritage of the province of Florence
JOHN SCHOFIELD: art and art history student and mud angel in 1966. Now an architect and building conservator in Cornwall, England
TRASPORTO: separation of a work’s painted surface (and sometimes ground) from its supporting panel or canvas; or, in the case of the Cimabue Crocifisso, the removal of painted canvas from wood panels.
TRATTEGGIO: fine hatching used to infill gaps in damaged painting. Applied with four colors in chromatic abstraction
GIORGIO VASARI (1511–74): painter, architect, courtier, and art historian
VELINATURA: securing and consolidating the painted surface of an artwork with rice paper (or, in emergencies, Kleenex) applied with Paraloid acrylic resin