Art Restoration After Arno Flood in Florence

Man stands looking at the devastated riverbank in the aftermath of the Arno River flood / EXT National Central Library or Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze near the riverbank with trucks parked in front / people trying to pull something out of mud / camera pans the drenched manuscripts on shelves / workers in overalls pass damaged books to each other between shelves / CU the ankle deep mud the workers are standing in / piled up books and manuscripts / workers begin turning the book pages assessing flood damage / damaged paintings lay flat on the floor in a hallway / worker cleaning the frame of a large Renaissance painting / two workers paint on a damaged circular ceramic disc / two women restore the statue of a female / man painstainkingly fixes a torn canvas / man wearing white coat and face mask sprays filing cabinets for mold / EXT mud drenched gardens / workers sweep and tidy church and altar / CU man cleaning tomb art with a toothbrush / EXT of Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore with trucks and cars parked outside.