In “Scattered Parts of an Italian Masterpiece Are Reunited”, an article in the Arts Section of the September 19, 2024 issue of The New York Times, Elizabetta Povoledo writes about the reuniting in an exhibit at the Gallerie dell’ Academia Venice of most of a nine panel ceiling painted by Giorgio Vasari in the early 1540s that had been dismantled and dispersed across Europe sometime after 1798. (A small panel of a cherub and part of the panel depicting an Allegory of Faith are still missing.) It took Italian cultural officials more than forty years to locate the panels helped by a detailed description of the work published by Vasari. The search required significant funding which came from private donors and “conservation charities”. We could use many more private donors and conservation charities so other large scale projects can be carried out.