Friday, 26 May 2017, 17:00 at MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences – In 1944, near the end of World War II, an allied bombing campaign destroyed the Eremitani church in Padua, Italy. The church was famous among art lovers for its magnificent frescoes, which included a series by the early renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506). Over 88,000 small pieces of painted plaster, …