Word: chiusi
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...bequest, Sassetta's Our Lady of the Snow, is arguably the greatest surviving work by this unprolific Sienese master and worth, according to a spokesman at Christie's, "about $1,500,000." But it was stolen 60 years ago from the high altar of the church at Chiusi, near Siena, and purchased later by Contini-Bonacossi...
...highway town of Chiusi, with its ancient Etruscan tombs, was less fortunate. First captured by the British Eighth Army, it was lost again to a German counterattack within 72 hours, remained the center of fighting for days and was heavily battered...
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