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June 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Also known as The Raising of Lazarus, the masterpiece has been restored for the first time in 60 years and will be showcased in Palazzo Braschi until July 15, 2012.
Caravaggio created the painting in Sicily in 1609. The work was housed in the church of the Crociferi fathers in Messina before it was moved to the city museum.
Resurrection of Lazarus depicts the story in the Gospel of St John in which Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead.
“During this period of his life, Caravaggio was forced to finish his paintings very quickly and therefore he refined his technique in order to achieve this objective,” said restorer Anna Maria Marcone.
“He used local materials and used the dark background in order to quickly realize the figures,” she told a news conference.
It took seven months for restoration experts to finish their work on the 3.80 x 2.75-meter painting.
Caravaggio, whose real name was Michelangelo Merisi, painted the piece on six pieces of canvas that were then sewn together to reach the desired size.
Legend has it that the first restorer of the painting, Andrea Suppa, removed some of the paint while cleaning in 1607. Suppa was harshly criticized by the people of Messina and died of a broken heart.
The painting, however, survived it all and even remained intact after the great 1908 Messina earthquake that killed thousands of people and destroyed thousands of buildings in Sicily and Calabria.
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