Arts alert: Totti Fresco undergoing Restoration

Elizabeth Minchilli reports on Facebook that a 10-year-old fresco of the Roma soccer star Francesco Totti--off via Madonna dei Monti in the Monti quartiere--had recently been defaced and, we're pleased (and somewhat surprised) to learn, was being restored by the artists who painted the original. The restoration effort is depicted in Minchilli's photo, above. RST took the "before" photo, below, in 2010. Elizabeth Minchilli's website is www.elizabethminchilliinrome.com Bill