After two year restoration, Mantegna’s masterpiece “Saint Zeno” will be back on display at the Church of San Zeno in Verona.
The famous altarpiece will be unveiled on 21 May, the feast day of the city’s patron Saint Zeno.
Actually the work consists of six panels, though people tend to remember only the three major panels which form the altarpiece.
Unfortunately only the first four panels will be on display in Verona; the two missing pieces ( i.
e.
The Crucifixion and the Agony in The Garden) which were taken by Napoleon to Paris more than two centuries ago are still in France; the first on display at the Louvre and the other on show in the city of Tour
