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Today we begin to tell the testimony of those who, over the years, have shared and supported our research work.

The first professional who strongly influenced the development, including moral development, of the Bottega Tifernate was certainly Prof. Antonio Paolucci, one of the most important art critics in the world, currently director of the Vatican Museums. Here is what he wrote on the occasion of the great exhibition in Seoul in 2009:

Stefano and Francesca Lazzari of the Bottega Artigiana Tifernate are now a constant and everywhere appreciated presence, in museums and cities in Italy and around the world: from the Uffizi in Florence to the Vatican in Rome, from Seoul to San Francisco. Their reproductions of famous frescoes dear to the universal imagination are accurate, elegant, reliable. In the products that come out of the Città di Castello workshop there is the flavor of ancient artisan wisdom, there is the reflection of a profound love for the testimonies of our artistic civilization.
I am happy and proud to have recognized and valorized the talent and sensitivity of Stefano Lazzari in years gone by when, Superintendent of the Museums of Florence, I wanted their refined reproductions of frescoes to occupy the sales counters of the Uffizi, San Marco, the Bargello . Since then it has been an uninterrupted series of successes because the people of the museums have been able to understand and appreciate the professionalism and quality of the Bottega Tifernate; now a fixed and bright star in the sky of art reproductions.

Antonio Paolucci, The Director of the Vatican Museums