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Why are Piero della Francesca’s Vatican frescoes no longer seen?
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Piero della Francesca
The Flagellation of Christ, tempera on wood panel by Piero della Francesca, late 1450s; in the National Gallery of the Marches, Urbino, Italy.
The frescoes that Piero della Francesca painted for Pope Pius II in the Vatican in 1459 are no longer seen because they have been destroyed.1