Florence. Ponte Buggianese. Borgo San Lorenzo.

It (re)started with Pietro Annigoni. An internationally renowned portrait painter, he spent the last years of his life doing frescoes for churches in Tuscany and farther afield from his Florentine home.

Around the same time, Italy's best-known restorer of frescoes, Leonetto Tintori, developed a method for restoration rooted in the making of frescoes—to restore a fresco you had to know how to make one. He eventually opened his home outside Prato to artists and restorers, who propagated his knowledge and wisdom around the world.