While 'extreme churching,' a man stumbled upon a centuries-old Italian print in a Louisa church

Mar 07, 2018 810

BY: HOLLY PRESTIDGE

It's the sort of story that tickles curiosities and generates more questions than answers: A rare centuries-old print - an engraved copy - of a famous painting by an Italian Renaissance master hangs in a small church in rural Virginia and goes unnoticed for who knows how long until a random stranger happens upon it and sees it for what it is.

Sounds like the stuff of movie scripts, right? Richmond resident Federico Colagrande attended a funeral in November 2015 at Gilboa Christian Church, a quaint, circa-1849 building located along U.S. 33 in Louisa County. There with his girlfriend, Annette Bronson, the couple filed into the church's fellowship hall after the services with the rest of the funeral attendees, but they didn't stop there.

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SOURCE: http://www.fredericksburg.com/

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