First known Piero is found, 70 years later and thousands of miles away

ROME -- The first known painting by Piero della Francesca, thought to have been lost, has been found in Chile nearly 70 years after it disappeared. Madonna col Bambino, painted in tempera on panel between 1436 and 1439, was last seen in 1940 in the collection of a Florentine count in Italy. It was tracked down to the collection of a lawyer in Santiago by the organisers of an exhibition that opens in Arezzo this month.