Dark Water

Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4 1966 the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement. . Now Robert Clark explores the Italian citys greatest flood and its aftermath through the voices of its witnesses. Two American artists wade through the devastated beauty; aphotographer stows away on an army helicopter to witness the tragedy first-hand; a British mud angel spends a month scraping mold from the worlds masterpieces; and through it all an author asks why art matters so very much to us even in the face of overwhelming disaster.