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Now illuminating the church of Sant'Andrea in Selci is the reproduction of Francesco Tifernate's painting Madonna con Santi, which was blessed on Friday afternoon by the bishop of the diocese, Monsignor Luciano Paolucci Bedini, in front of hundreds of faithful. The parish of the Sangiustino hamlet, led by Don Paolino Trani, had been carrying out this project for some time now, thanks to the skilful hands of the experts of the Bottega Tifernate, an internationally renowned reality.

After a short musical introduction, it was historian Nadia Burzigotti who described the origin of Francesco Tifernate's work, which has links in the past with Selci: the painting, before being transferred to the Diocesan Museum of Città di Castello, its current location, was in fact in the church of Sant'Andrea in Selci.

‘Working in the art world today,’ said Francesca and Stefano Lazzari, founders of Bottega Tifernate, ’has an even greater significance than a few decades ago. The advent of social networking and technology in such widespread use has created a general disinterest and flattening towards art and culture, but at the same time it has allowed those who wish to do so to find out about places, artists and works of art from the past and present. We feel a responsibility to spread the taste for beauty, for refinement. The feeling is that the more we go on, the more this idea becomes an important testimony and example of what was the most enlightened period of our humanity: the Renaissance,' they concluded, declaring that they were honoured to have contributed to the realisation of a work particularly dear to the community of Selci.

For 30 years, the Bottega Tifernate has been engaged in the reproduction of works of art, certified by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage; in particular, it has patented a special technique, pictography, which allows copies of ancient masterpieces to be made that are identical to the original, thanks also to the use of painting and finishing similar to ancient ones.